History The territory of the Central African Republic was conquered by France after 1890 and administered from 1910 as the Ubangi-Shari colony in the Federation of French Equatorial Africa (since 1946 overseas territory within the French Union). After 1945, the Catholic clergyman Barthélémy Boganda (* 1910, † 1959) made a name for himself as a political leader and after granting autonomy on December 1, 1958, gave the country the name…
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