Orientale Province
Orientale Province
Province Orientale | |
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Lingala, Pa-Zande (Zande language ) |
Orientale Province (French: Province orientale, "Eastern province") is one of the former provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its predecessors the Congo Free State and the Belgian Congo. It went through a series of boundary changes between 1898 and 2015, when it was divided into smaller units.
The District of Orientale Province was created from Stanley Falls District on 15 July 1898. The district was expanded to become Orientale Province in 1913. It was divided in 1933 into
The province lay in the northeast of the country. Originally it bordered
History
On 15 July 1898 the Stanley Falls District became the District of Orientale Province (District de la province Orientale), with
Orientale/Oost Province was formed in 1913 in the Belgian Congo from the District of Orientale Province, expanded to include Haut-Uélé, Bas-Uélé and Aruwimi. The new province contained the districts of Bas-Uele, Haut-Uele, Ituri, Stanleyville, Aruwimi, Maniema, Lowa and Kivu. It was divided in 1933 into
In 1998 the Orientale villages of
The
As of 2014, militia groups continue to fight in the province and have reportedly committed many atrocities against the local population, such as forcing women into sex slavery and forcing men to work in mines.[3]
Approximate correspondence between historical divisions and current provinces
| Belgian Congo | Republic of the Congo | Zaire | Democratic Republic of the Congo | ||||||
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| 1908 8 districts |
1913 1 province |
1932 1 province |
1947 1 province |
1963 3 provinces |
1966 1 province |
1971 1 province |
1988 1 province |
1997 1 province |
2015 4 provinces |
| Bas-Uele | Orientale | Stanleyville | Orientale | Uélé | Orientale | Haut-Zaïre | Orientale | Bas-Uélé | |
| Haut-Uele | Haut-Uélé | ||||||||
| Ituri | Kibali-Ituri | Ituri | |||||||
| Stanleyville | Haut-Congo | Tshopo | |||||||
| Aruwimi | |||||||||
| Maniema | ( Costermansville, Kivu and successors)
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| Lowa | |||||||||
| Kivu | |||||||||
Divisions
The province was divided into the city of
See also
- List of governors of Orientale Province
- Kisangani history and timeline
References
- ^ Auzias & Labourdette 2006, p. 180.
- ^ Lemarchand 1964, pp. 62–63.
- ^ "Sexual slavery rife in Democratic Republic of the Congo, says MSF". The Guardian. 2014-07-23. Archived from the original on 2023-04-08.
- ^ a b "Haut-Congo: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population". World Gazetteer. Archived from the original on 2013-02-10.
Bibliography
- Auzias, Dominique; Labourdette, Jean-Paul (2006). Congo: république démocratique. Petit Futé. ISBN 2-7469-1412-3.
- Gwillim Law (1999). "Democratic Republic of the Congo". Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998. US: ISBN 0786407298.
- Lemarchand, René (1964), Political Awakening in the Belgian Congo, University of California Press, GGKEY:TQ2J84FWCXN, retrieved 19 August 2020
External links
- Site of the province (Gouverneur and province assembly), in French
- Bamanisajean.unblog.fr is Governor Jean Bamanisa's blog site.
- Stanleyville.be City of Kisangani Website.
- @Prov_orientale Twitter for Orentale Provincial Government
- Facebook Orentale Provincial Government
- CDC "Map of the Democratic Republic of the Congo indicating the neighboring villages of Durba and Watsa, the epicenter of the 1998 outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever."
- "Liste des gouverneurs de la Province Orientale". Stanleyville.be (in French). Jean-Luc Ernst. (1913-1960); +1960-2015
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