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Meaning:

Proper noun:

  • A region in southeastern Congo, originally conquered by the Congo Free State (owned by the Belgian king, not his European state) but administered as a corporate mining concession
  • In 1960 a unilaterally declared independent state; in 1961-63 reconquerred by Congo and re-organised in three provinces until 1966; renamed Shaba 1972-1997 as part of president Mobutu's Zairization
  • Since 1910, an autonomous part of the Belgian colony Congo
  • Since 1933, a regular province, until 1947 however named after its capital: Elisabethstad in Dutch or Elisabethville in French

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