 Map of the Belgian colonial empire The Belgian colonial empire was the set of colonies of Belgium, lasting from 1901 to 1962. Within Belgium, its overseas possessions were referred to as "the colonies" rather than as an empire. [citation needed] Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1357x628, 42 KB) Black = Belgium Dark red = Belgian Congo (1908-1960) Light red = Ruanda-Urundi (1916-1962) Yellow square = Tientsin (concession zone) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1357x628, 42 KB) Black = Belgium Dark red = Belgian Congo (1908-1960) Light red = Ruanda-Urundi (1916-1962) Yellow square = Tientsin (concession zone) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not...
See colony and colonisation for examples of colonialism which do not refer to Western colonialism. ...
Belgium has had two notable colonies, both in Equatorial Africa: Belgian Congo (1908-1960) and Ruanda-Urundi (1916-1962). In 1901 Belgium also gained a concession zone in Tientsin (or Tianjin; a Chinese Treaty port) along with several other European powers and America, as a result of the Boxer Rebellion. Equatorial Africa is a term currently being used in place of Sub-Saharan Africa in anthropological and racial discussions. ...
Capital Léopoldville Government Protectorate Created 1908 Dissolved 1960 Official language(s) French, Dutch The Belgian Congo was the formal title of present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between King Léopold IIs formal relinquishment of personal control over the state to Belgium on 15 November 1908...
Ruanda-Urundi was a Belgian League of Nations Mandate and then UN trust territory from 1924 to 1962 when it became the independent states of Rwanda and Burundi. ...
In international law, a concession is a territory within a country that is administered by another entity (usually a colonizing power, or at least mandated by one, as in the case of colonial Chartered companies) then the state which holds sovereignty over it. ...
Tianjin (Chinese: 天津; pinyin: tiān jīn; Postal System Pinyin: Tientsin) is a harbour municipality in China on the Hai He River (from Beijing) and Bohai Gulf of the Yellow Sea (Pacific Ocean). ...
Nanking, August 29, 1842, Peace Treaty between the Queen of Great Britain and the Emperor of China The Treaty of Nanking (南京條約) is the agreement which marked the end of the First Opium War between the United Kingdom and China. ...
Combatants Eight-Nation Alliance (ordered by contribution): Japan Russia United Kingdom France United States Germany Italy Austria-Hungary Righteous Harmony Society Qing China Commanders Edward Seymour Alfred Gaselee Ci Xi Strength 20,000 initially 49,000 total Over 100,000 Casualties 230 foreigners, thousands of civilians Unknown This article is...
The Berlin Conference of 1885 agreed to hand over Congo to King Leopold II as his private possession, called the Congo Free State. In 1908, it was ceded to Belgium as a colony, henceforth called the Belgian Congo. The rich Katanga province was originally exploited by a separate company. A temporary, leased annex was the Lado Enclave in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The Berlin Conference (German: Kongokonferenz or Congo Conference) of 1884–85 regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period. ...
King Léopold II His Majesty King Léopold II of the Belgians (Louis Philippe Marie Victor) (April 9, 1835–December 17, 1909), succeeded his father, Léopold I of Belgium, to the Belgian throne in 1865 and remained king until his death. ...
The Congo Free State was a kingdom privately and controversially owned by King Leopold II of Belgium that included the entire area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ...
Capital Léopoldville Government Protectorate Created 1908 Dissolved 1960 Official language(s) French, Dutch The Belgian Congo was the formal title of present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between King Léopold IIs formal relinquishment of personal control over the state to Belgium on 15 November 1908...
Country Democratic Republic of the Congo Capital Lubumbashi Largest city Lubumbashi National Language Swahili, Tshiluba Land area¹ 496. ...
The Lado Enclave was an enclave of the Congo Free State situated on the west bank of the Upper Nile in what is now southeast Sudan and northern Uganda that existed from 1894 until 1910. ...
The former German colonies Ruanda-Urundi were occupied by Belgian Congo in 1916. They were mandated in 1924 to Belgium by the League of Nations, later again by the UN. This is a list of former German colonies, or Schutzgebiete (protectorates) as they were called in official German. ...
Ruanda-Urundi was a Belgian League of Nations Mandate and then UN trust territory from 1924 to 1962 when it became the independent states of Rwanda and Burundi. ...
The League of Nations was an international organization founded after the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. ...
Belgian Congo gained its independence on 30 July 1960 during the Congo Crisis, and the halves of Ruanda-Urundi became independent separately as the republics of Rwanda and Burundi in 1962. July 30 is the 211th day (212th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 154 days remaining. ...
Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...
Combatants Congo UN troops Katanga Belgium Mercenaries The Congo Crisis (1960-1965) was a period of turmoil in the First Republic of the Congo that began with national independence from Belgium and ended with the seizing of power by Joseph Mobutu. ...
Following the independence of both colonies, Belgium kept strong but eventful political and economical relationships with the three succeeding republics, which still refer to the 'special relationship' whenever that seems to suit: Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), Rwanda and Burundi.
See also
Colonisation of the Congo refers to the period from Henry Morton Stanleys first exploration of the Congo (1867) until its annexation as a personal possession of King Léopold II of Belgium (1885). ...
The Francophonie is an international organisation of French-speaking countries and governments. ...
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