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The Congo Free State, also known as the Independent State of the Congo ( French: État indépendant du Congo ), was a large state and absolute monarchy in Central Africa from 1885 to 1908. It was privately owned by King Leopold II, the constitutional monarch of the Kingdom of Belgium. In legal terms, the two separate nations were in a personal ...
A Map of the route of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1887–1889, Published in 1890. In many areas the courses of rivers are dashed or omitted, reflecting the limited European knowledge of the region at the time. The Districts of the Congo Free State were the primary administrative divisions of the Congo Free State from 1885 to
Atrocities in the Congo Free State. King Leopold II, whose rule of the Congo Free State was marked by severe atrocities, violence and major population decline. Civilian victims of mutilation by Free State authorities. From 1885 to 1908, many atrocities were committed in the Congo Free State (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) under the ...
Congo Free State (1885–1908), Belgian Congo (1908–1960) I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
v. t. e. The Congo Free State was a state in Africa created and headed by the former Belgian monarch, Leopold II as a personal union with Belgium. On 29 May 1885, after the closure of the Berlin Conference, the king announced that he planned to name his possessions "the Congo Free State", an appellation which was not yet used at the Berlin ...
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Deutsch: Location map of Democratic Republic of the Congo Equirectangular projection. Strechted by 100.0%. Geographic limits of the map: N: 6.0° N; S: -14.0° N; W: 11.0° E; E: 32.0° E; Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. A new map with the 26 provinces (since 2015) is available here.
Militants allied with the Islamic State group in eastern Congo have killed at least 41 people in several villages in North Kivu province, the national government said Monday, as residents openly ...