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Article 3 of the decree of 16 April 1887 provided for the Congo Free State to be divided into administrative districts headed by district commissioners, assisted by one or more deputies. The decree of 1 August 1888 divided the Congo Free State into eleven districts, of which the first five were in
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as its headquarters. A 1907 report listed 14 districts, with
Lualaba and Kasai combined in one district as in the 1897 map. The Free State was annexed by Belgium in 1908 as the
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The 1897 map does not show the
Lualaba District formed from the southern part of Stanley Falls District. It shows the Lualaba Kassai District well to the west of the
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of 1887–1889, Published in 1890. In many areas the courses of rivers are dashed or omitted, reflecting the limited
European knowledge of the region at the time.
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from 1885 to 1908. There were various boundary changes in the period before the Congo Free State was annexed by
Belgium to become the
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In 1895 the number of the districts was increased to fifteen. Aruwimi-Uele was split into two districts:
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had been formed from the southern part of
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defined the northeastern border of the colony with the French colonies, which lay across the
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Further east the Uellé District covered the basin of the
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to the east of the Congo River. North of Équateur the
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633:Auzias, Dominique; Labourdette, Jean-Paul (2006).
619:Atlas général du Congo / Algemene atlas van Congo
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32:were the primary administrative divisions of the
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30:Districts of the Congo Free State
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636:Congo: république démocratique
505:Etat Indépendant du Congo 1886
482:Districts of the Belgian Congo
386:, which covered the Kasai and
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590:Territoire et population 1907
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20:A Map of the route of the
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493:References
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476:See also
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340:Ubangui
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238:Lusambo
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168:Lukunga
126:Capital
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