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The culture of Angola is influenced by the Portuguese.Portugal occupied the coastal enclave Luanda, and later also Benguela, since the 16th/17th centuries, and expanded into the territory of what is now Angola in the 19th/20th centuries, ruling it until 1975.
Luanda was granted the status of city in 1605. Many Portuguese settlers married native Africans, resulting in a mixed-race (mulato, later generally called mestiço) population. [citation needed] In 1881, of the 1,450 European residents of Luanda, 721 were exiled criminals, degredados. Before the 1920s, despite government incentives, very few ...
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In 1641, forces from the Dutch West India Company, working in alliance with the Kingdom of Kongo, seized Luanda, driving out the Portuguese and setting up the directorate of Loango-Angola. The fall of Luanda was a major blow to the Portuguese, and Nzinga quickly dispatched an embassy to the Dutch-controlled city.
Luanda's Pavilhão Multiusos do Kilamba hosted games for Angola's national basketball team on many occasions. [59] In 2013 Luanda together with Namibe, today's Moçâmedes, hosted the 2013 FIRS Men's Roller Hockey World Cup, the first time that a World Cup of roller hockey was held in Africa. The city is home to the Desportivo do Bengo football ...
Events in Luanda (1 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 11 March 2024, at 22:49 (UTC). Text is ... This page was last edited on 11 March 2024, at 22:49 (UTC).