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  2. European exploration of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Africa is named for the Afri people who settled in the area of current-day Tunisia. The Roman province of Africa spanned the Mediterranean coast of what is now Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria. The parts of North Africa north of the Sahara were well known in antiquity. However, the Romans never seem to have explored the Sahara itself, or the lands ...

  3. French colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    [97] In 1905, the French abolished slavery in most of French West Africa. [98] From 1906 to 1911, over a million slaves in French West Africa fled from their masters to earlier homes. [99] In Madagascar over 500,000 slaves were freed following French abolition in 1896. [100]

  4. French emigration (1789–1815) - Wikipedia

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    As a result of the French Revolution, French migration to the Canadas was decelerated significantly during, and after the French Revolution; with only a small number of nobles, artisans and professionals, and religious emigres from France permitted to settle in the Canadas during that period. [8]

  5. French Algeria - Wikipedia

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    In the 1890s, the French administration and military called for the annexation of the Touat, the Gourara and the Tidikelt, [122] a complex that during the period prior to 1890, was part of what was known as the Bled es-Siba (land of dissidence) [123]), regions that were nominally Moroccan but which were not submitted to the authority of the ...

  6. French North Africa - Wikipedia

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    The French protectorate of Tunisia was established in 1881, following a swift military invasion, [3] and the French protectorate in Morocco in 1912, following a prolonged military campaign. These lasted until 1956 when both protectorates gained full independence, Tunisia on 20 March and Morocco on 7 April.

  7. French diaspora - Wikipedia

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    When French noblewomen Marie Louise Gonzaga and Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien were Queens consorts of Poland in the 17th century, there was a second significant wave of French migration to Poland. [101] The third wave consisted of French monarchists, merchants and craftsmen fleeing the French Revolution. [102]

  8. French Africa - Wikipedia

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    Klein, Martin A. Slavery and colonial rule in French West Africa (Cambridge University Press, 1998) Manning, Patrick. Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa 1880-1995 (Cambridge UP, 1998). Neres, Philip. French-speaking West Africa: From Colonial Status to Independence (1962) Priestley, Herbert Ingram. France overseas: a study of modern imperialism ...

  9. European settlement of Algeria - Wikipedia

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    During the French colonial period (1830–1962), Algeria contained a large European population of 1.6 million who constituted 15.2% of the total population in 1962. . Consisting primarily of French people, other populations included Spaniards in the west of the country, Italians and Maltese in the east, and other Europeans in small