Belgian Congo

Belgian Congo

colony, former administrative territorial entity

Part of	Belgian Empire, European colonies in Africa
Piiluu	15 Nyɔgevennebare 1908
Native label	Congo belge, Belgisch-Kongo
Ŋmene bee sagediibu	Catholic Church
Official language	French, Dutch
Continent	Africa
Paaloŋ	Belgian Empire
Kapital/teŋkpoŋ	Kinshasa, Boma
Coordinate location	4°18′24″S 15°16′49″E
Basic form of government	colony
Currency	Congolese franc
Replaces	Congo Free State
Language used	French, Dutch
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date	30 Gyoone 1960
Category for maps or plans	Category:Maps of Belgian Congo

A Belgian Congo (baŋ bʋɔna [kɔ̃ɡo bɛlʒ]; ) da i yɛ Belgian deme sʋgʋ kaŋa aŋ da bi Afirika soŋsogo paalʋʋ a gara ka ʋ wa diɛ ʋ miŋa a yuoni 1960 ka ba lɛʋ bʋɔna ka a Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).

Meŋ kaa kyɛ

• Belgium portal
• Democratic Republic of the Congo portal

• Archives Africaines (Belgium), which keeps material related to Belgian Congo
• Les Belges dans l'Afrique Centrale
• Districts of the Belgian Congo
• Belgian Congo in World War II
• Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Tintin in the Congo

Sommo

1. In Dutch, an alternative and phonetically-identical spelling, Belgisch-Kongo, is also sometimes seen.

Bibliography

Historiography

• Stanard, Matthew G. "Belgium, the Congo, and Imperial Immobility: A Singular Empire and the Historiography of the Single Analytic Field,"French Colonial History (2014) vol 15 -109.
• Vanthemsche, Guy. 'The historiography of Belgian colonialism in the Congo" in C Levai ed., Europe and the World in European Historiography (Pisa University Press, 2006), pp. 89–119. online

A French bee Dutch

• 1948–2015; 11 volumes  online

Ziiri mine Liŋkiri

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