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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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    The Banque du Congo Belge (BCB, Dutch: Bank van Belgisch Congo; lit. 'Bank of the Belgian Congo') was a Belgian colonial bank that mainly operated in...
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    eastern part of the Congo Free State during the 19th century). In his Étude ethnographique de l'Itombwe (district du Kivu, Congo Belge), Hautmann stated:...
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    successor, King Albert I, and named the Museum of the Belgian Congo (French: Musée du Congo Belge, Dutch: Museum van Belgisch-Kongo). The following years saw...
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  • Huileries du Congo Belge (HCB) was a subsidiary of the soap manufacturing company Lever Brothers, created by William Hesketh Lever, which ran plantations...
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  • Radio Congo Belge (French, "Belgian Congo Radio") was a radio broadcaster in the Belgian Congo (the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo) which played...
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    networks of spies throughout the Congo during the war. As per a deal reached on 21 March 1941, loans from the Banque du Congo Belge enabled the Belgian government...
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    Congo Belge 1915–1919. Bruxelles. 1922 p. 100 Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Per Annuaire statistique de la Belgique et du Congo Belge 1915–1919...
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    Banque Centrale du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi (BCCBRU). The Conseil monétaire evolved in 1964 into the Banque Nationale du Congo, the country's new...
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    Ottoman Empire) settled in the Congo. That same year, a Jewish community center was established named the Communauté du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi. A synagogue...
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    The Abir Congo Company (founded as the Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company and later known as the Compagnie du Congo Belge) was a company that exploited...
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    Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo Belge was founded as the governing body for national parks in the Belgian Congo. Between the early 1930s and 1961...
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  • transferred Crégéco's banking operations in the Belgian Congo to a newly created affiliate, the Banque Belge d'Afrique (BBA), while retaining Crégéco as a listed...
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  • Congolese franc (redirect from Congo franc)
    currency in the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi. A decree in 1911 authorised the private Bank of the Belgian Congo (Banque du Congo Belge, BCB) to issue banknotes...
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    Banque Centrale du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi (BCCBRU) was a short-lived central bank whose territorial remit covered Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi...
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    musulman" au Congo belge et au Ruanda-Urundi". Cahiers du CIERL. 4: 11–18. Media related to Islam in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at Wikimedia...
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  • Adair, T. Stewart. The Belgian Congo: The Stamps of the Belgian Congo. London: A.J.Sefi, 1925 Cock, Andre de. Le Congo Belge et ses marques postales, evaluation...
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  • Frédéric (1939). "Étude ethnographique de l'Itombwe (district du Kivu, Congo Belge)". Geographica Helvetica. 4 (3): 175–177. doi:10.5194/gh-4-175-1949....
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    the Belgian Congo becomes a member of the Latin Monetary Union in 1908. Banque du Congo Belge established in 1909. Banque du Congo Belge issues its first...
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  • the Belgian Congo becomes a member of the Latin Monetary Union in 1908. Banque du Congo Belge established in 1909. Bank of Belgian Congo issues its first...
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    History of the Congo. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-30486-2. Ergo, André-Bernard (2005), Des bâtisseurs aux contempteurs du Congo Belge: L'odyssée...
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    Radio Congo Belge also began broadcasting during this period. Bill Alexandre, a Belgian working for CEFA, brought electric guitars to the Congo. Popular...
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    was a Brussels-based Belgian bank spun off in 1960 from the Banque du Congo Belge in the context of forthcoming Congolese independence. While retaining...
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    Lever Brothers (category Palm oil production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
    operations of its subsidiary in the Belgian Congo, where Lever Brothers, through their subsidiary Huileries du Congo Belge (HCB), utilised forced labour between...
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  • portefeuille de la Colonie du Congo belge (PDF), 6 February 1965, retrieved 2021-09-19 Davis, Richard Harding (1907), The Congo and Coasts of Africa, New...
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    Albert Thys (category Congo Free State people)
    d'Outremer and the Banque du Congo Belge. He died in Brussels, aged 66, in 1915. Banque d'Outremer Banque du Congo Belge Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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    region (Le Potentiel No. 3700/2006). Blanchart, Charles: Le Rail au Congo Belge 1920–1945. Bruxelles: Blanchart, 1999 "Openstreetmap". Retrieved 2020-04-12...
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  • Jeremy, "Anioto: Mise d'une patte sur la puissance. Hommes de léopard du Congo belge, 1911-1936'", conference delivered at the 4th Annual Midwestern Graduate...
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    Matamoros gained widespread popularity in the Congo region as a result of airplay over Radio Congo Belge, a powerful radio station based in Léopoldville...
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    History of Belgium Atrocities in the Congo Free State Foreign relations of Belgium Rio Nuñez incident Société Belge d'Études Coloniales (est. 1894) Colonial...
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