Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Map of the Belgian Congo published in the 1930s The highest-ranking representative of the colonial administration residing in the Belgian Congo was the Governor-General . From 1886 until 1926, the Governor-General and his administration were posted in Boma , near the Congo River estuary.
Map of the Belgian Congo, 1914. This is a list of place names of towns and cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which were subsequently changed after the end of Belgian colonial rule. Place names of the colonial era tended to have two versions, one in French and one in Dutch, reflecting the two main languages of Belgium. Many of these ...
Roughly 98% of Belgium's overseas territory was just one colony (about 76 times larger than Belgium itself) – known as the Belgian Congo. The colony was founded in 1908 following the transfer of sovereignty from the Congo Free State, which was the personal property of Belgium's king, Leopold II. The violence used by Free State officials ...
The Free State was annexed by Belgium in 1908 as the Belgian Congo. On a 1910 map the Stanley Pool District had been renamed Moyen-Congo District, with various changes to the boundary. It was now bordered by the Bas-Congo District to the south, Kwango and Lac Léopold II districts to the east, and Équateur district to the north. [3]
The Congo Free State was annexed by Belgium in 1908 to become the Belgian Congo. At first the structure of districts was retained. At first the structure of districts was retained. In 1910 the western districts of Banana , Boma , Matadi and Cataractes were consolidated into one administrative unit, Bas-Congo , reducing the number to twelve. [ 1 ]
An 1897 map of the Congo Free State showed the huge Stanley Falls District where the later Stanleyville and Katanga districts would be created. [1] A 1910 map of the Belgian Congo shows the Stanleyville District along the northeastern border of the colony, with Uele District to the north, Aruwimi District and Kasai District to the west and Katanga District to the south.
The Congo Free State was annexed by Belgium in 1908 as the Belgian Congo. [5] A map of administrative divisions in 1910 shows Kasai District still stretching down to the southern border of the colony, but extended to the northeast by including the eastern part of Lac Léopold II District, the western arm of Stanleyville District and the northwest arm of Lualaba District.
Ubangi District is shown on maps of 1910, 1912 and 1926 with somewhat different boundaries on each map. [4] Équateur Province was created in 1917. [5]As of 1926 the province included the districts of Ubangi, Bangala, Lulonga, Équateur and Lac Léopold II.