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Moyen-Congo
African territory
Quick Facts
- Date:
- 1910 - 1959
- Related Places:
- Republic of the Congo
- French Equatorial Africa
Moyen-Congo, (French: “Middle Congo”), one of the four territories comprising French Equatorial Africa, the origins of which derive from the establishment in 1880 by the explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza of a station at Ntamo. From 1934 Moyen-Congo was directly administered by the governor-general of French Equatorial Africa. It was granted independent status as the Congo Republic in 1960 and was subsequently renamed the People’s Republic of the Congo, abbreviated Congo (Brazzaville).