Compagnie du Katanga
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The Compagnie du Katanga was a concession company of the Congo Free State.[1] The company was founded in 1891 to occupy part of the Free State in order to dissuade a British claim on the land.[2] The company received 99-year mineral exploitation rights on one third of the land and preferential rights for twenty years on the remainder.[2]
References
- ↑ Harms 1975, p. 78.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fage, Oliver & Sanderson 1985, p. 342.
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