TheBelgianCongo (French: Congo belge, pronounced [kɔ̃ɡo bɛlʒ]; Dutch: Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence...
responsible for the territory of theCongo Free State and BelgianCongo (today the Democratic Republic of theCongo). Prior to the creation of theCongo Free State...
on Belgium to take official control of the country, which it did in 1908, creating theBelgianCongo. Belgian rule intheCongo was based around the "colonial...
theBelgianCongoin 1908. Following unrest, Belgium granted Congo independence in 1960. However, theCongo remained unstable, leading to theCongo Crisis...
King Leopold II's Congo Free State inthe International Exposition of 1897. The museum focuses on theCongo, a former Belgian colony. The sphere of interest...
as the Mission sui iuris of theBelgianCongo, from territory taken from both the Apostolic Prefecture of Lower Congo (in Cubango, Angola) and the Apostolic...
The French Congo (French: Congo français) or Middle Congo (French: Moyen-Congo) was a French colony which at one time comprised the present-day area of...
Bas-Congo Province, Congo Free State in 1888. He was the son of Luizi Fernando, a government-appointed chief, and a woman named N'Sengo. A Belgian official...
responsible for the territory of theCongo Free State and BelgianCongo (today the Democratic Republic of theCongo). Prior to the creation of theCongo Free State...
Düsseldorf and Essen. When Sabena was created, the airline was partly funded by BelgiansintheBelgianCongo colony who had lost their air service, an experimental...
The following lists events that happened during 1954 intheBelgianCongo. Governor-general – Léo Pétillon BelgianCongo History of the Democratic Republic...
independence in 1960 from theBelgianCongo. The Republic of Zaire during 1971–1997 was also named after the river's name in French and Portuguese. TheCongo's drainage...
apostolic in 1957. Monseigneur Gillon went to theBelgianCongo and became the first rector of the Lovanium University (now University of Kinshasa) in Léopoldville...
The following lists events that happened during 1953 intheBelgianCongo. Governor-general – Léo Pétillon BelgianCongo History of the Democratic Republic...
The following lists events that happened during 1949 intheBelgianCongo. Governor-general – Eugène Jungers BelgianCongo History of the Democratic Republic...
side. The BelgianCongo remained loyal to theBelgian government in London and contributed significant material and human resources to the Allied cause...
TheBelgian Armed Forces (Dutch: Defensie; French: La Défense) is the national military of Belgium. The King of theBelgians is the commander-in-chief...