The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State" id="mw8A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Congo Free State">Congo Free State</a> is established by King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium" id="mw8Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Leopold II of Belgium">Leopold II of Belgium</a>.<sup about="#mwt74" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_1#cite_note-12" id="mw8g" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw8w">[12]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"><cite about="#mwt71" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1" id="CITEREFChisholm1911"><a href="./Hugh_Chisholm" id="mwCRI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. (1911). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" id="mwCRM" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Congo Free State"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Congo_Free_State" id="mwCRQ" rel="mw:ExtLink">"Congo Free State"<span id="mwCRU" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span></a></span>. <i id="mwCRY"><a href="./Encyclopædia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" id="mwCRc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i> (11th<span id="mwCRg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>ed.). Cambridge University Press.</cite><span about="#mwt71" class="Z3988" id="mwCRk" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=Congo+Free+State&amp;rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&amp;rft.edition=11th&amp;rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1911&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJuly+1"></span><link about="#mwt71" href="./Category:Wikipedia_articles_incorporating_a_citation_from_the_1911_Encyclopaedia_Britannica_with_Wikisource_reference" id="mwCRo" rel="mw:PageProp/Category"/></span>