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  2. Ubangi-Shari - Wikipedia

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    Ubangi-Shari had a similar concession system as the Congo Free State and similar atrocities were also committed there. French author and Nobel laureate André Gide travelled to Ubangi-Shari and was told by inhabitants about atrocities including mutilations, dismemberments, executions, the burning of children, and villagers being forcibly bound to large beams and made to walk until dropping ...

  3. Central African Republic - Wikipedia

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    The Central African Republic (CAR), [a] formerly known as Ubangi-Shari, [b] is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south, the Republic of the Congo to the southwest, and Cameroon to the west.

  4. Portal:Central African Republic/Intro - Wikipedia

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    The Central African Republic (CAR), formerly known as Ubangi-Shari, is a landlocked country in Central Africa.It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south, the Republic of the Congo to the southwest, and Cameroon to the west.

  5. Fort de Possel - Wikipedia

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    A map of Ubangi-Shari c. 1910 showing the location of Ft. de Possel in the southwestern corner of the colony.. Fort de Possel (French: Fort-de-Possel) was a French garrison and settlement in central Africa which served as the capital of Ubangi-Shari from February 11 to December 11 in 1906. [1]

  6. Postage stamps and postal history of Ubangi-Shari - Wikipedia

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    Ubangi-Shari (French: Oubangui-Chari) was a French colony in central Africa which later became the independent country of the Central African Republic on August 13, 1960. It followed the establishment of the Bangui outpost in 1889, and was named in 1894.

  7. Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa - Wikipedia

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    The party, which was initially intended to work as a political movement, was founded by Barthélemy Boganda in Bangui, Ubangi-Shari (later known as the Central African Republic) on 28 September 1949, to connect "all the Blacks of the world" [1] and "to promote the political, economic and social evolution of black Africa, to break down the barriers of tribalism and racism, to replace the ...

  8. List of colonial governors of Ubangi-Shari - Wikipedia

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    Oubangui-Chari-Tchad (constituent colony of Congo Français, renamed French Equatorial Africa in 1910) April 4, 1906, to February 28, 1909 Émile Merwart , Lieutenant-Governor

  9. Postage stamps and postal history of the Central African ...

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    The first Central African Republic stamp issued in 1959 depicting Boganda. The Central African Republic has been issuing stamps since 1959. Before this, it was called Ubangi-Shari. [1] [2] Ubangi-Shari became an autonomous state within the French Community and was renamed the Central African Republic on 1 December 1958. The Republic became ...