Congo Free State Wikipedia
The Congo Free State, also known as the Independent State of the Congo (French: État indépendant du Congo; Dutch: KongoVrijstaat), was a large state in Central Africa from 1885 to 1908. It was privately owned by Leopold II (not by the government of Belgium, of which he was the constitutional monarch).Leopold was able to procure the region by convincing other Eurasian states at the Berlin ...