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  2. Kingdom of Kongo - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Kongo (Kongo: Kongo Dya Ntotila [6] [7] [8] or Wene wa Kongo; [9] Portuguese: Reino do Congo) was a kingdom in Central Africa.It was located in present-day northern Angola, the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, [10] southern Gabon and the Republic of the Congo. [11]

  3. List of World Heritage Sites in Angola - Wikipedia

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    The town of Mbanza Kongo, located on a plateau at an altitude of 570 m, was the political and spiritual capital of the Kingdom of Kongo, one of the largest constituted states in Southern Africa from the 14th to 19th centuries.

  4. M'banza-Kongo - Wikipedia

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    Mbanza Kongo grew substantially as the kingdom of Kongo expanded and grew, and an ecclesiastical statement of the 1630s related that 4,000-5,000 baptisms were performed in the city and its immediate hinterland (presumably the valleys that surround it), which is consistent with an overall population of 100,000 people. Of these, perhaps 30,000 ...

  5. List of rulers of Kongo - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the rulers of the Kingdom of Kongo known commonly as the Manikongos (KiKongo: Mwenekongo). Mwene (plural: Awene) in Kikongo meant a person holding authority, particularly judicial authority, derived from the root -wene which meant, by the sixteenth century at least, territory over which jurisdiction was held.

  6. Kongo people - Wikipedia

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    Kongo oral tradition suggests that the Kingdom of Kongo was founded before the 14th century and the 13th century. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] The kingdom was modeled not on hereditary succession as was common in Europe, but based on an election by the court nobles from the Kongo people.

  7. List of kingdoms and empires in African history - Wikipedia

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    There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".

  8. Seven Kingdoms of Kongo dia Nlaza - Wikipedia

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    The kingdom of Mbata was particularly important as its alliance with Kongo's founding ruler helped establish the Kingdom of Kongo. Mbata held the title of Nkaka andi Mwene Kongo, meaning "grandfather of the King of Kongo" and suggesting that initially it was the senior, or perhaps elder partner.

  9. Kakongo - Wikipedia

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    Kakongo was a small kingdom located on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, in the modern-day Republic of the Congo and Cabinda Province, Angola.In the 13th century, it formed part of a confederation led by Vungu.