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Originally Posted by Skybird
 I admit this is the first time in my life I ever heared of that a country of this name even exists. Never heared of it, never read about despite having read several books about Africa, never noticed anywhere somebody mentioning it in speech or writing.
At least not under this name. Has it been renamed, maybe? |
Well they were the "
Central African Empire" for a little while.
But no the CAR has been around since the 1960's, before that it was part of French Equatorial Africa (1st as Ubangi-Shari, then as part of Chad) until all that broke up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_African_Republic