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History of Ivory Coast in maps
Ivory Coast as it appears in 6 interactive history atlases, from 1890 to 2015: Ivory Coast, Côte d’Ivoire. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
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What was Ivory Coast before it was Ivory Coast? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History atlases — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.
Ivory Coast · Industrial Revolution
| Colony or dependency — the opening position | |
| Colony or dependency |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Ivory Coast · WWI
| Entente-aligned & imperial territories — the opening position |
Ivory Coast · Road to WW2
| Colonial empires & possessions — the opening position |
ROAD TO WW2: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Ivory Coast · Cold War
| NATO & core Western allies — the opening position | |
| Non-aligned & neutral |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Côte d’Ivoire · Decolonization of Africa
Côte d’Ivoire won independence from France in 1960 under Félix Houphouët-Boigny, a loi-cadre alumnus who governed as a French minister before he governed his own country. He built the closest, most prosperous relationship with Paris of any former colony — the heart of “Françafrique” — trading political independence for cocoa-and-coffee wealth and French protection. A model of dependence disguised as partnership.
| French-ruled — the opening position | |
| Independent Africa |
DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Ivory Coast · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Authoritarian, one-party or colonial rule — the opening position | |
| Right won in law | |
| No reform yet / outside this story | |
| Partial or unequal; treaty signed only; transition |
FEMINISM AND THE TUNISIAN REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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