Micronations/List of past micronations/Sultanate of M'Simbati

The Sultanate of M'Simbati was a now defunct micronation founded in 1959 in Tanganyika by Englishman Latham Leslie Moore, approximately 40 km southeast of Mtwara.BROYARD Anatole https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/29/books/books-of-the-times-002772.html Books of The Times New York Times New York, NY 1982-10-29 2017-03-09 No Man's Land begins, appropriately, with the story of Latham Leslie Moore, an elderly Englishman who, after more than 40 years in Africa, bought an island of 640 acres off the coast of Tanganyika and declared it a sultanate, maintaining that he had seceded from the mainland. Briggs Philip Wildman Kim Tanzania: With Zanzibar, Pemba and Mafia The South Coast Bradt Travel Guides 2009 563 Life events of Latham Leslie-Moore Latham Leslie-Moore was born in Paddington, London, United Kingdom in 1893,https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/3105064 Latham Leslie Moore Imperial War Museum 2014 2017-03-10 died in 1980 and was buried in the Old Soldiers' Cemetery in Nanyuki, Kenya.https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=102418944 Find a Grave: Latham Leslie Moore Find A Grave Memorial# 102418944 2012 2017-03-10 During World War I, he served as a second lieutenant and then lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery.https://search.livesofthefirstworldwar.org/record?id=GBM/MCI/3108252 Medal Index Card Transcription Imperial War Museum 2017-03-10 Moore purchased the physical property of the sultanate in 1924.Farrow, OBE Malcolm Prothero David http://www.flaginstitute.org/pdfs/the_colours_of_the_fleet.pdf PDF THE COLOURS OF THE FLEET London, UK Flag Institute 15 Jan 2015 120 2017-03-09 Formation of the nation In 1959 the country of Tanganyika was a colony of the United Kingdom— Leslie-Moore purchased an island/ peninsula and corresponded with the colonial governors of the colony declaring his succession and asking for formal recognition of his sultanate. When Tanganyika later merged with the People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba to form modern day Tanzania, Leslie-Moore also corresponded with the nation's new president, Julius Nyerere, requesting recognition of his state, as well as to the United Nations. None of these requests was ever honored, however.Flags of the World Website JOhn Bottern 25 November 2005 https://fotw.info/flags/tz_msimb.html Flag The flag was loosely based upon other contemporary traditional British Empire flags containing a tricolor of orange, blue and green with a Union flag in the canton. In popular culture Moore and the sultanate were featured in a 1983 book NO MAN'S LAND. The Last of White Africa. By John Heminway.BROYARD Anatole https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/29/books/books-of-the-times-002772.html Books of The Times New York Times New York, NY 1982-10-29 2017-03-09 No Man's Land begins, appropriately, with the story of Latham, an elderly Englishman who, after more than 40 years in Africa, bought an island of 640 acres off the coast of Tanganyika and declared it a sultanate, maintaining that he had seceded from the mainland. The Sultanate was also featured in the book Colours of the Fleet, by Malcolm Farrow, OBE, which strived to provide a compendium of all known instances of flags based on British designs.Farrow, OBE Malcolm Prothero David http://www.flaginstitute.org/pdfs/the_colours_of_the_fleet.pdf PDF THE COLOURS OF THE FLEET London, UK Flag Institute 15 Jan 2015 120 2017-03-09 References External links Ruins of Sultanate 'palace' Latham Leslie Moore grave