French equatorial Africa (frz. Afrique Fran§aise; Abk. AEF) was a French colony in the central Africa between gulf of Guinea and the eastern Sudan from 1910 to 1958. Capital was Brazzaville.

The colony had a size of approx. 3 million km and possessed approx. 6 million inhabitant and was as follows partitioned:

• Gabon (Gabon)
• The central Congo (le Moyen Congo, the today's Republic of the Congo)
• Chad (Chad)
• Ubangi Schari (Oubangui Chari, the today's Central African republic)

History

Louis Edouard Bouet Willaumez establishes 1839 French bases in Gabon.

1875 become Gabon French colony.

1880 count Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza conquer the central Congo.

Into the 1880er/1890er the Frenchmen arrive to Chad and okkupieren the there Islamic realms (among other things Wadai)

1898 fail the long-continuous attempt to expand French equatorial Africa from the Atlantic to the Indik when the Frenchmen discover in Faschoda at the Nile the British.

1900 battle with Kousseri. Victory of a French expedition under Lamy over the troops of the afro Arab usurper Rabih b. Fadlallah.

1910 Brazzaville capital becomes.

1910 come it to the conquest Chad and Ubangi Scharis.

To 4 November 1911 parts are surrendered to the German colony Cameroon (new Cameroon).

On 30 November 1958 the four republics become within the Fran§aise from the colony.

1960 becomes the four countries independently.

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