Information
Name: Congo Free State
Type: Polity
Nation: congo-kinshasa
Start: 1885
End: 1908
Congo Free State: All Data
This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.
Was a large state and absolute monarchy in Central Africa from 1885 to 1908. It was privately owned by and in a personal union with King Leopold II. The state included the entire area of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo and existed from 1885 to 1908, when the Belgian Federal Parliament reluctantly annexed the state as a colony belonging to Belgium after international pressure.
