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Of Belgium's other colonies, the most significant was Ruanda-Urundi, a portion of German East Africa, which was given to Belgium as a League of Nations Mandate, when Germany lost all of its colonies at the end of World War I. Following the Rwandan Revolution, the mandate became the independent states of Burundi and Rwanda in 1962. [2]
In 2015 the archives went to the Belgian State Archives, an arrangement expected to continue until 2018. [4] The Archives Africaines includes "the archives of the former Ministry for Colonies (5 km), the archives of the Governor-General of the Congo (4.5 km), and the files on former colonial personnel (1.4 km)." [4]
The Belgian Congo (French: Congo belge, pronounced [kɔ̃ɡo bɛlʒ]; Dutch: Belgisch-Congo) [a] was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960 and became the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville). The former colony adopted its present name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in 1964.
The following is a list of European colonies in Africa, organized alphabetically by the colonizing country. France had the most colonies in Africa with 35 colonies followed by Britain with 32. [ 1 ]
The population of the city grew apace from approx. 30,000 in 1930, to 50,000 in 1943 and 180,000 in 1957. It was the second city of the Belgian Congo, after Léopoldville. The Belgian Quarter in Lubumbashi. As was customary with European colonies, the city centre of Élisabethville was reserved for the minority white (European) population.
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Pages in category "Belgian colonisation in Africa" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This is a list of the dates when African states were made colonies or protectorates of European powers and lost ... South Africa: 1879 United Kingdom: Fante ...