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Belgian and Congo
A royal decree issued in 1910, two years after the Belgian government assumed authority for the administration of the Congo, prescribed the registration of all adult males by chiefdoms.
At first the Belgian royal family administered the Congo as its own private property.
The Belgian government decided to act, and on July 10 dispatched paratroops to the Congo.
* 1964 – The Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
During the 1892 – 1894 war between the Congo Free State and the Swahili-Arab city-states of Nyangwe and Kasongo in Eastern Congo, there were reports of widespread cannibalization of the bodies of defeated Arab combatants by the Batetela allies of Belgian commander Francis Dhanis.
It is situated at the watershed of the Congo and Zambesi rivers, part of the district lay in Northern Rhodesia and part in the Belgian Congo State.
During its history the area has also been known as Congo, Congo Free State, Belgian Congo and Zaire.
By 1908 public and diplomatic pressure led Leopold II to the annex the Congo as the Belgian Congo colony.
The renamed Belgian Congo came under the administration of the Belgian parliament, which lasted until independence was granted in 1960.
* Belgian Congo ( 1908 – 60 ) this was arguably the longest-albeit coerced-period of tranquility the country has experienced.
In 1908, under international pressure, Leopold ceded administration of the colony to the government of Belgium as the Belgian Congo.
Ill-advised actions by Belgian officers led to an enlisted ranks ' rebellion on 5 July 1960, which helped spark the Congo Crisis.
The last Belgian troops left the country by 23 July, as United Nations forces continued to deploy throughout the Congo.
Mainly or partially francophone or francosphere countries include France, Belgium ( Wallonia is almost entirely francophone, and there is a large French-speaking community in the Brussels-Capital Region and a few bordering municipalities ), Canada ( the province of Quebec is francophone, and there are large French-speaking communities in Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces ), United States ( South / Central Louisiana and parts of Maine ), Switzerland, Haiti, the French West Indies and several countries in Africa, including Congo, Burundi, Madagascar and Rwanda, that are former French or Belgian colonies.
Eight and a half years before writing the book, Conrad had been appointed by a Belgian trading company to serve as the captain of a steamer on the Congo River.
The Roi des Belges, the Belgian riverboat Conrad commanded on the upper Congo, 1889
Old Belgian river station on the Congo River, 1889

Belgian and was
The excuse was offered for them that they had mistaken the Italians for Belgian mercenaries.
I, for one, rather regret that Schnabel didn't collaborate with the Budapest Quartet, whose rugged, athletic playing was a good deal closer to this pianist's interpretative outlook than the style of the Belgian group.
The same system, with minor modifications, was developed in Ruanda-Urundi under Belgian administration.
His name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes ' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans ' Monsieur Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer living in London.
Christie's Poirot was a francophone Belgian.
Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".
On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".
Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members of the Belgian police.
: " By the step leading up into the sleeping-car stood a young Belgian lieutenant, resplendent in uniform, conversing with a small man ( Hercule Poirot ) muffled up to the ears of whom nothing was visible but a pink-tipped nose and the two points of an upward-curled moustache.
Originally called Rijndael, the cipher was developed by two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, who submitted to the AES selection process.
A new Belgian airline named SN Brussels Airlines was subsequently founded by business man Etienne Davignon.
The breed's characteristic gene mutation was maintained through linebreeding to the point where the condition was a fixed property in the Belgian Blue breed.
When van de Velde was forced to resign in 1915 because he was Belgian, he suggested Gropius, Hermann Obrist and August Endell as possible successors.
At Méteren, near the Belgian border at Bailleul on 13 October 1914, during an Allied counter-offensive, he was shot through the right lung by a sniper.
The word bicycle was coined by the Belgian newspaper La Gaulois in the 1890s.
Independently deriving Friedmann's equations in 1927, Georges Lemaître, a Belgian physicist and Roman Catholic priest, proposed that the inferred recession of the nebulae was due to the expansion of the Universe.
The one major paratrooper attack was used earlier in Holland to capture a bridge and a number of small-scale glider-landings were conducted in Belgium to capture terrain dominating bottle-necks on planned routes of advance prior to the arrival of the main ground forces ( the most renowned being the landing on the Belgian border-fort of Eben-Emael ).
In 1927, the Belgian Roman Catholic priest Georges Lemaître independently derived the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker equations and proposed, on the basis of the recession of spiral nebulae, that the universe began with the " explosion " of a " primeval atom "— which was later called the Big Bang.
The Cretaceous as a separate period was first defined by a Belgian geologist Jean d ' Omalius d ' Halloy in 1822, using strata in the Paris Basin and named for the extensive beds of chalk ( calcium carbonate deposited by the shells of marine invertebrates, principally coccoliths ), found in the upper Cretaceous of western Europe.
The most common compound of chlorine, sodium chloride, has been known since ancient times ; however, around 1630, chlorine gas was obtained by the Belgian chemist and physician Jan Baptist van Helmont.
According to Julius Caesar, the Belgian tribe of the Atuatuci " was descended from the Cimbri and Teutoni, who, upon their march into our province and Italy, set down such of their stock and stuff as they could not drive or carry with them on the near ( i. e. west ) side of the Rhine, and left six thousand men of their company there with as guard and garrison " ( Gall.

Belgian and granted
According to some sources, during the briefings before the operation, Peiper stated that no quarter was to be granted, no prisoners taken, and no pity shown towards Belgian civilians.
The territory was granted independence in 1962 as the separate countries of Rwanda and Burundi, bringing the Belgian colonial empire to an end.
Several branches of the House of Bernadotte have been members of this association, as a result of members of the royal family losing their Swedish titles and being granted foreign ( Luxembourgish or Belgian ) titles upon marrying non-royals.
She also became a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold, received the Belgian Croix de Guerre / Oorlogskruis with palm, and was granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Belgian Army.
TUI Travel placed an offer for taking over Sobelair's aircraft in order to create a Belgian airline subsidiary, provided that creditor protection would be granted.
< p > Pomphray was probably name of one of the Flemish ( Belgian ) noblemen invited by King David I and his grandson Malcolm IV to settle in Scotland in the twelfth century ... Pomphray would have been granted the lands north of the Almond in return for serving the king in battle ... around the castle built by Pomphray, probably a wooden structure later replaced by a stone building, would have grown up a little settlement and farm to house and feed his adherents and servants-Pomphray's town.
An attempt by Adrian Davies to launch parallel proceedings in Belgium without notifying the Belgian Court of English proceedings was blocked by a landmark anti-suit injunction granted by Miss Sarah Asplin QC on 20 May 2011, where she stated " Given that the present defendants had submitted to the hearing of that issue and allowed costs to be incurred, in my judgement such conduct is vexatious and oppressive ".
Among the friends he made in his travels were King Albert I of Belgium, who made him a Commander of the Crown and Honorary Belgian Consul for Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, and Queen Marie of Romania, whose 1926 visit to the United States was largely at his behest, and who granted him the Order of the Crown in the Degree of the Grand Cross ; and Marshall Joseph Joffre, whom Hill took on a trip around the world in 1922.
In 1995, the Belgian authorities granted permission for him to return, but only if he agreed to live there under supervision of a social worker.
Coffee has been a major cash crop in Arsi as early as 1912, when two Belgian companies were granted concessions of 1, 464 hectares of land for cultivating coffee in the area of the current Zone.
Membership can only be granted by his majesty, King Albert II and is reserved to the very most important Belgian nationals and to some distinguished foreign persons who contributed in one way to the Belgian military, the Belgian civil society or the Belgian State.
Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons was granted full access to the archives of Saville's vintage Factory projects and made a personal selection of Saville-designed works to integrate them into Raf Simon's " Closer " Autumn / Winter 2003-4 collection.
In August 2003 the Refugee Status Appeals Authority declared both his Belgian and French trials to be " unsafe " and granted Zaoui refugee status.
Construction occurred between 1847 and 1850 after the Belgian government granted permission in 1846.

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