6 ATLASES
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? The sections below follow this land through every era covered by the Maps of History atlases: who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed. Each line links to the dated map. Modern borders serve as an approximation, as each atlas says 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
Félix Houphouët-Boigny led Côte d’Ivoire to independence from France in 1960. A loi-cadre alumnus, he had governed as a French minister before governing his own country. His government built what was the closest and most prosperous relationship with Paris of any former colony, at the heart of “Françafrique.” Cocoa-and-coffee wealth and French protection accompanied political independence, but the partnership also sustained dependence.
| 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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