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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. Portal:Central African Republic - 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.

  4. Central African Republic - Wikipedia

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    In 1920, French Equatorial Africa was established and Ubangi-Shari was administered from Brazzaville. [34] During the 1920s and 1930s the French introduced a policy of mandatory cotton cultivation, [34] a network of roads were built, attempts were made to combat sleeping sickness, and Protestant missions were established to spread Christianity ...

  5. 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

  6. 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]

  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. Central African Republic–Republic of the Congo border

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    By 1903 the areas that now make up Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville (then called Moyen-Congo, or Middle Congo) were united as French Congo (later split), with areas further north organised into Ubangi-Shari (modern Central African Republic) and Chad military territory; the latter two areas were merged from 1906 to 1914 as Ubangi-Shari-Chad. [3]

  9. Roger Guérillot - Wikipedia

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    Roger Léon Charles Guérillot (12th of November 1904 – 31st of October 1971) was a French colonist of Ubangi-Shari who was involved in the process of independence by which it became the Central African Republic.