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- proper noun The original
French colony established in the present-day area of theRepublic of the Congo ,Gabon and theCentral African Republic (1880 - 1910), which later becameFrench Equatorial Africa .
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- noun a republic in west-central Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960
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Examples
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African possessions of which the French Congo is the principal one.
An African Adventure Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918
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These include the French Congo worm lizard (Cynisca bifrontalis), Haugh's worm lizard (Cynisca haughi), Boulenger's feylinia (Feylinia boulengeri), and the Cameroon racer (Poecilopholis cameronensis).
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Hassim, ex-Senegalese Chief -- wanted in French Congo for murder.
The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005
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The Governor-General wanted to insure that his counterpart from the French Congo was bringing all the native women he had promised to deliver during the upcoming festivities.
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HOTALEN: And they were hitting the French Congo and they got stuck in Abidjan because no flights were allowed to come in.
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Insurrection broke out in the Welle District of the Congo Free State and spread into the French Congo.
1903 2001
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After much fencing, the Germans admitted to the French that they would require the whole of the French Congo as compensation for the abandonment of their rights and interests in Morocco.
1911, April-May 2001
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Kenya, French Congo, Senegal, Gambia and a splinter group from Nigeria, and
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"I've got a map of a route to some sort of treasure -- I don't know what -- It's in the Karamajo Mountains in the French Congo; a map to it and a water color of the thing."
The Sleuth of St. James's Square Melville Davisson Post
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She recalled her gunboat and as a concession to obtain peace, was permitted to acquire some territory in the French Congo country.
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