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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]
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 Confederacy:
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 ]
1.11 Belgian. 1.12 Swedish. ... of the Boer Republics to the British Empire in 1902 Union of South Africa; United States of the Ionian Islands ... of Africa; Colonies ...
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.
There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".
Belgian Congo (8 C, 18 P, 1 F) C. Congo Free State (14 C, 40 P) D. ... Pages in category "Former colonies in Africa" The following 92 pages are in this category, out ...