The Belgian Congo was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960 and became the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville). Belgian Congo · Resistance · Congo Crisis and aftermath

15 нояб. 2024 г. · Belgian Congo (Congo Belge) was a colony in Africa that was ruled by Belgium from 1908 until June 30, 1960, when it became an independent ...

The Congo Free State, also known as the Independent State of the Congo was a large state and absolute monarchy in Central Africa from 1885 to 1908. Belgian Congo · The Crime of the Congo · Colonization of the Congo Basin

King Leopold II of Belgium formally relinquished control of the Congo Free State (Belgian Congo) to the Belgian government on November 15, 1908.

The decolonization of Sub-Saharan Africa from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s resulted in several proxy Cold War confrontations between the United States and ...

1 нояб. 2024 г. · On February 5, 1885, Belgian King Leopold II established the Congo Free State as his personal possession.

The Berlin Conference (1884 – 1885) recognised the sovereignty of King Leopold II of Belgium over the Free State of the Congo. The king governed the ...

months before Stanley's arrival in Boma, King Leopold II had organised in Brussels an International Geographical. Conference, where he developed the ...

... Belgian Congo. King Leopold seized for himself the vast and largely unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Western powers -- beginning with the ...

Leopold II's reign in the Congo became an international scandal due to large-scale mistreatment of the indigenous peoples.