Sultanate of M'Simbati

Sultanate of M'Simbati
Micronation
Flag
Status Defunct (now part of Tanzania)
Official languages English
Organizational structure Absolute monarchy
• Sultan
 Latham Leslie Moore
Establishment
• Declared
 1959
Area claimed
• Total
 1.6 km2 (0.62 sq mi)
Membership < 5

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.[1][2]

Life events of Latham Leslie Moore

Latham Leslie Moore was born in Paddington, London, United Kingdom in 1893,[3] died in 1980 and was buried in the Old Soldiers' Cemetery in Nanyuki, Kenya.[4] During World War I, he served as a second lieutenant and then lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery.[5] Moore purchased the physical property of the sultanate in 1924.[6]

Flag

The flag was loosely based upon other contemporary traditional British Empire flags containing a tricolor of red, blue and yellow with a Union flag in the canton.

Moore and the sultanate were featured in a 1983 book NO MAN'S LAND. The Last of White Africa. By John Heminway.[7]

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.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ BROYARD, Anatole (1982-10-29). "Books of The Times". New York Times. New York, NY. Retrieved 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.
  2. ↑ Briggs, Philip; Wildman, Kim (2009). "The South Coast". Tanzania: With Zanzibar, Pemba and Mafia. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 563.
  3. ↑ "Latham Leslie Moore". Imperial War Museum. 2014. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
  4. ↑ "Find a Grave: Latham Leslie Moore". Find A Grave Memorial# 102418944. 2012. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
  5. ↑ "Medal Index Card Transcription". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
  6. ↑ Farrow, OBE, Malcolm; Prothero, David (15 Jan 2015). THE COLOURS OF THE FLEET (PDF). London, UK: Flag Institute. p. 120. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  7. ↑ BROYARD, Anatole (1982-10-29). "Books of The Times". New York Times. New York, NY. Retrieved 2017-03-09. No Man's Land begins, appropriately, with the story of Latham Template: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.
  8. ↑ Farrow, OBE, Malcolm; Prothero, David (15 Jan 2015). THE COLOURS OF THE FLEET (PDF). London, UK: Flag Institute. p. 120. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
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