Ruanda-Urundi
Ruanda-Urundi ranks 8,837th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Velikiye Luki, Marcory, and Gao. Memorable people born in Ruanda-Urundi include Paul Kagame and Melchior Ndadaye. Ruanda-Urundi has been the birth place of many politicians. Ruanda-Urundi is located in Rwanda.
Ruanda-Urundi, later Rwanda-Burundi, was a colonial territory, once part of German East Africa, that was occupied by troops from the Belgian Congo during the East African campaign in World War I and was administered by Belgium under military occupation from 1916 to 1922. It was subsequently awarded to Belgium as a Class-B Mandate under the League of Nations in 1922 and became a Trust Territory of the United Nations in the aftermath of World War II and the dissolution of the League. In 1962 Ruanda-Urundi became the two independent states of Rwanda and Burundi. Read more on Wikipedia
Between 1953 and 1957, Ruanda-Urundi was the birth place of 2 globally memorable people, including Paul Kagame and Melchior Ndadaye.
People Born in Ruanda-Urundi
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Most individuals born in present day Ruanda-Urundi were politicians (2), while most who died were .
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 1 globally memorable people born in Ruanda-Urundi since 1700.
