Sentence examples for Belgian Congo from inspiring English sources
proper noun
A country in Africa, the predecessor of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In 1908, under international pressure, Leopold ceded administration of the colony to the government of Belgium as the Belgian Congo.
During the late 1950s, growing opposition to colonial rule in the Belgian Congo led to large-scale demonstrations in Léopoldville.
During the original treaty negotiations, the United States insisted that colonies like the Belgian Congo be excluded from the treaty.
In Africa the hot Cold War continued especially in the former Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique, but also in former Belgian Congo, with their enormous natural resources.
The privately sovereign Belgian Free State later evolved into conventional colonial status as the Belgian Congo.
Britain took the lead in securing control of the world's major source of ore in the Belgian Congo.
The Belgian Congo has been renamed Zaire.
Mines in Bohemia and Belgian Congo.
This was 1948, boom-time in the Belgian Congo.
This is plainly not the Belgian Congo of Conrad's story.
(Think Belgian Congo rather than today's civil warfare).
