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Encyclopedia Britannica



BOMA (properly Mboma)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 181 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BLA-BOS
BOMA (properly Mboma) , a port on the north bank of the river Congo about 6o m. from its mouth, the administrative
capital
  of Belgian Congo. Pop. about 5000. It was one of the places at which the
European
  traders on the west
coast
  of Africa established stations in the 16th and 17th centuries. It became the entrep6t for the commerce of the
lower
  Congo and a well-known mart for slaves. The
trade
  was chiefly in the hands of Dutch merchants, but British,
French
  and Portuguese firms also had factories there. No
European
  power exercised
sovereignty
 , though shadowy claims were from time to time put forward by Portugal (see AFRICA, 5). In 1884 the natives of Boma granted a protectorate of their country to the Inter-national Association of the Congo.
See H. M.
Stanley
 , The Congo and the
Founding
  of its Free State (London, 1885).


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