Congo Free State
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The Congo Free State was considered his personal possession and thus immune from intervention by the Belgian government.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
He was forced to relinquish his control of the Congo Free State in 1908, but the country did not gain independence from Belgium until 1960.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2020
A few years before, in 1885, the kingdom had been bought by a group of European investors, headed by the Belgian King Leopold II and organized as the Congo Free State.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 26, 2015
Verner added that he was a personal friend of the Belgian king, Leopold II, who controlled Congo Free State, and had promised any assistance required in the “diplomatic mission”.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 3, 2015
Thus was laid the foundation of the present Congo Free State.
From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.
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