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The earliest inhabitants of the region comprising present-day Congo were the Forest peoples whose Stone Age culture was slowly replaced by Bantu tribes. The main Bantu tribe living in the region were the Kongo, also known as Bakongo, who established mostly unstable kingdoms along the mouth, north and south, of the Congo River.
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The earliest known human settlements in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been dated back to the Middle Stone Age, approximately 90,000 years ago.The first real states, such as the Kongo, the Lunda, the Luba and Kuba, appeared south of the equatorial forest on the savannah from the 14th century onwards.
French Congo: 1882–1910: French Equatorial Africa: 1910–1958: Fulbert Youlou: Trois Glorieuses: 1963: 1968 coup d'état: 1968: People's Republic of the Congo: 1970–1992: 1990s: First Civil War: 1993–1994: Second Civil War: 1997–1999: 2002 constitutional referendum: 2002: 2015 constitutional referendum: 2015: COVID-19 crisis: 2020 ...
The Congo River is the world's deepest river and the world's third-largest river by discharge. The Comité d'études du haut Congo ("Committee for the Study of the Upper Congo"), established by King Leopold II of Belgium in 1876, and the International Association of the Congo, established by him in 1879, were also named after the river. [18]
King Leopold II, whose rule of the Congo Free State was marked by severe atrocities, violence and major population decline.. Even before his accession to the throne of Belgium in 1865, the future king Leopold II began lobbying leading Belgian politicians to create a colonial empire in the Far East or in Africa, which would expand and enhance Belgian prestige. [2]
Congo Crisis: 1960–1965: Congo–Léopoldville: 1960–1971: Zaire (Shaba I / II) 1971–1997: First Congo War: 1996–1997: Second Congo War: 1998–2003: Joseph Kabila presidency: 2001–2019: Félix Tshisekedi presidency: 2019–present
The Rainbow and the Kings: A History of the Luba Empire to 1891. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-04140-0. Balandier, Georges (1968). Daily Life in the Kingdom of the Kongo: From the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century. London: Allen & Unwin. OCLC 825737475. Thornton, John K. (2020). A History of West Central Africa to 1850 ...