On February 5, 1885, Belgian King Leopold II established the Congo Free State by brutally seizing the African landmass as his personal possession. Rather than control the Congo as a colony, as other European powers did throughout Africa, Leopold privately owned the region.
Oct 19, 2023
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May 31, 2024 · Belgian Congo, former colony (coextensive with the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo) in Africa, ruled by Belgium from 1908 until ...
The Belgian Congo was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960 and became the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
Jun 6, 2022 · A statue of Belgian King Leopold II is seen on a crossroad in Arlon, Belgium, on July 15, 2020. Jean-Christophe Guillaume ...
Jun 12, 2020 · Leopold II ruled Belgium from 1865-1909 - activists want this statue in Brussels removed due to his brutal regime in Congo Free State.
Jan 20, 2023 · The Congo Free State, also known as the Independent State of the Congo, was a private possession owned by King Leopold II of Belgium from ...
It was privately owned by King Leopold II, the constitutional monarch of the Kingdom of Belgium. In legal terms, the two separate nations were in a personal ...
Leopold devised a system of terror in which entire Congolese villages were forced to harvest rubber or face death by their Belgian overseers.
Leopold II ruled the Congo as his personal dominion from 1885 to 1908. During this period, the country was forced to endure the systematic exploitation of its ...
Jun 17, 2022 · After receiving permission from European leaders at the 1885 Berlin Conference, Leopold turned the land of Congo into his own personal colony, ...