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Boma is a port town on the Congo River, some 100 km upstream from the Atlantic Ocean, in the Bas-Congo province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It had an estimated population of 527,725 in 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Congo (Dem. Rep.): largest cities and towns and statistics of their population )〕 Boma was the capital city of the Congo Free State and Belgian Congo (the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo) from 1 May 1886 to 1926, when the capital was moved to Léopoldville (since renamed Kinshasa). The port handles exports of tropical timber, bananas, cacao, and palm products. == History == Boma was founded as a slaving station and ''entrepôt'' by merchants of several European countries in the 16th century. 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 claims were from time to time put forward by Portugal. Henry Morton Stanley arrived here on 9 Aug. 1877, after crossing Africa east to west.〔Stanley, H.M., 1899, Through the Dark Continent, London: G. Newnes, Vol. One ISBN 0486256677, Vol. Two ISBN 0486256685〕 In 1884 the people of Boma granted a protectorate of their country to the International Association of the Congo.〔 This references H. M. Stanley, ''The Congo and the Founding of its Free State'' (London, 1885).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boma, Democratic Republic of the Congo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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