• The following lists events that happened during 1936 in the Belgian Congo. Governor-general – Pierre Ryckmans Belgian Congo History of the Democratic Republic...
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    The Belgian Congo (French: Congo belge, pronounced [kɔ̃ɡo bɛlʒ]; Dutch: Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence...
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  • for use in the Congo Free State (1885–1908). After the Free State's annexation by Belgium, the currency continued in the Belgian Congo. The francs were...
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    February 1959), was a Belgian civil servant who served as Governor-General of Belgium's principal African colony, the Belgian Congo, between 1934 and 1946...
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    Belges modèle 1935 et 1936". Gazette des armes (in French). No. 38. pp. 36–41. "WWII weapons with Force Publique in the Belgian Congo". wwiiafterwwii.wordpress...
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    Synodontis schoutedeni (category Fish of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
    the Congo. It was first described by Belgian ichthyologist Lore Rose David in 1936, based upon a holotype discovered in Basongo, in what is now the Democratic...
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  • The following lists events that happened during 1934 in the Belgian Congo. Governor-general – Auguste Tilkens, Pierre Ryckmans Belgian Congo History of...
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    side. The Belgian Congo remained loyal to the Belgian government in London and contributed significant material and human resources to the Allied cause...
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    independence in 1960 from the Belgian Congo. The Republic of Zaire during 1971–1997 was also named after the river's name in French and Portuguese. The Congo's drainage...
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    lions or leopards. In 1937, Gandar-Dower authored a book on the subject, The Spotted Lion. He spent 1935 and 1936 in the Belgian Congo and Kenya, where...
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    Joseph Kasa-Vubu (category Presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
    became the leader of the Alliance des Bakongo (ABAKO) party in the 1950s and soon became a leading proponent of Congo's independence from Belgian colonial...
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    policies in the Congo before the reforms of direct Belgian rule. The Free State scandal is discussed at the Museum of the Congo at Tervuren in Belgium. On...
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    Shinkolobwe (redirect from Uranium in Congo)
    and selenides. The first mine was opened in the Belgian Congo in 1921. Uranium-bearing ore was initially exported to Olen, Belgium for the extraction of...
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    included the adoption of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919, the ruling of the Belgian Congo as an overseas possession of Belgium along with the League...
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    1889–90 Impact of Western European colonialism and colonisation The Belgian Congo and the Berlin act, by Keith, Arthur Berriedale, 1919, p. 52. De Belgische...
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  • Auguste Tilkens (category Governors-general of the Belgian Congo)
    Tilkens (1869–1949) was a Belgian career soldier and colonial civil servant who served as Governor-General of the Belgian Congo from 1927 until 1934. Auguste...
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    is the capital of Tshopo Province, located on the Congo River in the eastern part of the central Congo Basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It...
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    from the region and was allocated more modern equipment than other units of the Belgian Army. After Belgium's return to neutrality in 1936, the role of...
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    William Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme (category Viscounts in the Peerage of the United Kingdom)
    1934. Lever Brothers operated from the Belgian Congo beginning in 1911. In response to civil unrest by the Congolese, the company "demanded more troops, more...
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    King of the Belgians is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. The Belgian Armed Forces was established after Belgium became independent in October 1830...
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  • followed by Britain with 32. Belgian Congo (Congo Free State annexed as a colony, today's Democratic Republic of the Congo) Ruanda-Urundi (comprising modern...
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  • in the feat of flying their Handley Page W8 F biplane from Brussels, capital of Belgium, to Léopoldville (now Kinshasa), capital of the Belgian Congo...
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    Maurice Lippens (politician) (category Governors-general of the Belgian Congo)
    Governor-General of the Belgian Congo (1921–23) in which capacity he launched a major administrative reform. After resigning from the post following disagreement...
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  • Georges Van der Kerken (category Governors of provinces of the Belgian Congo)
    1953) was a Belgian lawyer, colonial administrator and professor. He served as acting governor of Équateur Province in the Belgian Congo in 1922. He is...
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  • Pierre Leroy (category Governors of provinces of the Belgian Congo)
    service of the Belgian Congo in 1938. Leroy became interested in the neolithic megaliths in the Uele River basin, and later wrote a book on the subject. Some...
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