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    Luanda

    Capital of Angola

    Luanda is the capital and largest city of Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast, Luanda is Angola's administrative centre, its chief seaport, and also the capital of the Luanda Province. Luanda and its metropolitan area is the most populous Portuguese-speaking capital city in the world and the most populous Lusophone city outside Brazil. In 2020 the population reached more than 8.3 million inhabitants. Among the oldest colonial cities of Africa, Luanda was founded in January 1576 as São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda by Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais, being occasionally called "Leonda" or "St Paul de Leonda" by non-portuguese sources. The city served as the centre of the slave trade to Brazil before the institution was prohibited. At the start of the Angolan Civil War in 1975, most of the white Portuguese left as refugees, principally migrating to Portugal. Wikipedia

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  2. britannica.com

    Jan 13, 2025Luanda, city, capital of Angola. Located on the Atlantic coast of northern Angola, it is the country's largest city and one of its busiest seaports. It is regarded as the capital of the Mbundu peoples. Learn more about Luanda's history, economy, and points of interest.
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  3. en.wikipedia.org

    Luanda (/luˈændə, -ˈɑːn-/, Portuguese: [luˈɐ̃dɐ]) is the capital and largest city of Angola.It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre.Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast, Luanda is Angola's administrative centre, its chief seaport, and also the capital of the Luanda Province.Luanda and its metropolitan area is the most populous ...
  4. en.wikipedia.org

    Portuguese coat of arms of the city of Luanda. 1908 - Voz de Angola newspaper begins publication. [13]1910 - Population: 15,000 (approximate). [3]1913 - Angolan League founded in Luanda. [5]1923 - A Provincia de Angola newspaper begins publication. [13]1930 - Diario de Luanda newspaper begins publication. [13]1940 Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Luanda established.
  5. blackpast.org

    Luanda was founded by Portuguese explorer Paolo Dias de Novaes as St. Paul of Luanda in 1576. It became the capital of a Portuguese colony in 1586 and became the capital of independent Angola when the former Portuguese colony gained its independence in 1975. Luanda … Read MoreLuanda, Angola (1576- )
  6. newworldencyclopedia.org

    Luanda (formerly spelled Loanda) is the capital and largest city of Angola.Located on the coast with the Atlantic Ocean, Luanda is the country's primary seaport and government center.The central government, foreign embassies, international aid organizations, multinational oil companies and financial institutions are all based there. It was once the nation's industrial hub, but suffered years ...
  7. en.wikipedia.org

    The Portuguese colony of Angola was founded in 1575 with the arrival of Paulo Dias de Novais with a hundred Portuguese families and four hundred soldiers. Its center at Luanda was granted the status of city in 1605.. The King of the Kongo soon converted to Christianity and adopted a similar political structure to the Europeans. He became a well-known figure in Europe, to the point of receiving ...
  8. daily.jstor.org

    May 24, 2024Those explorers found that the region was part of the vast Kingdom of Kongo, though it wouldn't be until more than a century later that the settlement of Luanda was founded. Originally calling the city "São Paulo da Assumpção de Loanda," the Portuguese made a Faustian pact with the Kongo people to get it built.
  9. oxfordre.com

    The trade in captives became the main economic activity of the Portuguese based in Angola, and Luanda became the single most important Atlantic slaving port. In Luanda and its hinterland, interactions between foreign and local peoples gave origin to a Luso-African society, which adopted elements of European and Mbundu cultures.
  10. oxfordre.com

    A Luso-African population and a creole culture developed in the colonial nuclei of Luanda and Benguela (founded 1617). The expansion of the colonial state into the interior occurred intermittently until the end of the 19th century, when Portuguese authorities initiated a series of wars of conquest that lasted up until the end of the First World ...
  11. The Luanda government is determined to keep oil operations running — and the cash flowing — even as war tears the country apart. To secure technological help from the West, the government creates Sonangol, a state-controlled company, and later guarantees it a 51% share of oil production in Angola. With authority to negotiate exploration and ...

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