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There were other private colonial enterprises - British India Company, Kingdom of Sarawak, Kongo Abir Company. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Com
by chewz 8y ago
There were other private colonial enterprises - British India Company, Kingdom of Sarawak, Kongo Abir Company.
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abir_Congo_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abir_Congo_Company
3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sarawak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sarawak
- Scarblac 8y agoEven crazier, Abir operated in Congo Free State (the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo). That was a private, personally owned colony of King Leopold II of Belgium. At the end of the 19th century. Congo is enormous.