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BOMA (properly Mboma)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 181 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BOMA (properly Mboma)

BOMA (properly Mboma) , a See also:

PORT

port on the See also:

north See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

RIVER

river See also:

CONGO

Congo about 6o m. from its mouth, the administrative See also:

capital of Belgian Congo. Pop. about 5000. It was one of the places at which the See also:

EUROPEAN

European traders on the See also:

west See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of See also:

Africa established stations in the 16th and 17th centuries. It became the entrep6t for the See also:

commerce of the See also:

LOWER

lower Congo and a well-known mart for slaves. The See also:

trade was chiefly in the hands of Dutch merchants, but See also:

BRITISH

British, See also:

French and Portuguese firms also had factories there. No European See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power exercised See also:

SOVEREIGNTY

sovereignty, though shadowy claims were from See also:

time to time put forward by See also:

PORTUGAL

Portugal (see AFRICA, § 5). In 1884 the natives of Boma granted a See also:

PROTECTORATE

protectorate of their See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country to the Inter-See also:

NATIONAL

national Association of the Congo. See H. M. See also:

Stanley, The Congo and the See also:

FOUNDING (from Lat. fundere, to pour)

Founding of its See also:

FREE

Free See also:

State (See also:

LONDON

London, 1885).

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