Salaga Area

The Salaga area (here designated as "neutral territory") in the northeast of the Gold Coast in 1896 The area of ​​Salaga (German: Salaga-Gebiet) was the name of a disputed territory between the colonial powers of Germany and Great Britain in the late nineteenth century, located in the vicinity of the city of Salaga in what today is the north-west of Ghana. Between 1889 and 1899, both powers considered the territory between their colonies of Togoland (Germany) and the Gold Coast (Great Britain), which was largely identical to the one corresponding to the Kingdom of Dagomba, as neutral. In the course of the Tripartite Convention (1899) the area was divided between German Togoland and the British Gold Coast.

The Tripartite Convention mainly regulated the colonial division of the Samoa Islands into the Pacific Ocean, but the 5th of 6 articles of the Treaty regulated the distribution of Salaga. After Germany's defeat in World War I, France and Britain divided Togoland in 1919, and the entire Salaga area finally came under British rule, and finally became part of Ghana when it gained independence in 1957. < / p>

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