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Belgian rule in the Congo was based on the "colonial trinity" ( trinité coloniale) of state, missionary and private company interests. During the 1940s and 1950s, the Congo experienced extensive urbanization and the administration aimed to make it into a "model colony". As the result of a widespread and increasingly radical pro-independence ...
French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China ), [a] [b] officially known as the Indochinese Union [c] [d] and after 1947 as the Indochinese Federation, [e] was a grouping of French colonial territories in Mainland Southeast Asia until its end in 1954. It comprised Cambodia, Laos (from 1899), the Chinese territory of Guangzhouwan ...
The French Union ( French: Union française) was a political entity created by the French Fourth Republic to replace the old French colonial empire system, colloquially known as the "French Empire" ( Empire français ). It was de jure the end of the "indigenous" ( indigène) status of French subjects in colonial areas.
11,979,000 [1] An East African Askari soldier holding Germany's colonial flag. The German colonial empire ( German: Deutsches Kolonialreich) constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies, and territories of the German Empire. Unified in 1871, the chancellor of this time period was Otto von Bismarck. Short-lived attempts at colonization by ...
Pages in category "French colonial empire". The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. French colonial empire.
The French colonial empire was constituted of the overseas colonies, protectorates and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 17th century onward. A distinction is generally made between the "First colonial empire", that existed until 1814 and by which time most of it had been lost, and the "Second colonial empire", which began with the conquest of Algier in 1830 and came to ...
