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Soyo

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Soyo (formerly known as Santo António do Zaire) is a city located in the province of Zaire in Angola, at the mouth of the Congo river. [1]

14 relations: Angola, Álvaro II of Kongo, Battle of Kitombo, Congo River, Garcia II of Kongo, Köppen climate classification, Kimpanzu, Kingdom of Kongo, List of municipalities of Angola, Provinces of Angola, São Tomé Island, Tropical savanna climate, West Africa Time, Zaire Province.

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola (República de Angola; Kikongo, Kimbundu and Repubilika ya Ngola), is a country in Southern Africa.

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Álvaro II of Kongo

Álvaro II Nimi a Nkanga was king of Kongo from 1587 to 1614.

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Battle of Kitombo

The Battle of Kitombo was a military engagement between forces of the BaKongo state of Soyo, formerly a province of the Kingdom of Kongo, and the Portuguese colony of Angola.

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Congo River

The Congo River (also spelled Kongo River and known as the Zaire River) is the second longest river in Africa after the Nile and the second largest river in the world by discharge volume of water (after the Amazon), and the world's deepest river with measured depths in excess of.

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Garcia II of Kongo

Garcia II Nkanga a Lukeni a Nzenze a Ntumba, also known as Garcia Afonso for short, ruled the Kingdom of Kongo from 23 January 1641 to 1661; he is sometimes considered Kongo's greatest king for his religious piety and his near expulsion of the Portuguese from Angola.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kimpanzu

The Kimpanzu were members of the Mpanzu kanda also known as the House of Kimpanzu, one of the lineages from which the kings of Kongo were chosen during the 17th century and following Kongo's reunification under Pedro IV.

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Kingdom of Kongo

The Kingdom of Kongo (Kongo: Kongo dya Ntotila or Wene wa Kongo; Portuguese: Reino do Congo) was an African kingdom located in west central Africa in what is now northern Angola, Cabinda, the Republic of the Congo, the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the southernmost part of Gabon.

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List of municipalities of Angola

The following is a list of municipalities of Angola, grouped by province.

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Provinces of Angola

Angola is divided into eighteen provinces, known in Portuguese as províncias.

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São Tomé Island

São Tomé Island, at, is the largest island of São Tomé and Príncipe and is home to about 157,000 or 96% of the nation's population.

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Tropical savanna climate

Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories "Aw" and "As".

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West Africa Time

West Africa Time, or WAT, is a time zone used in west-central Africa; with countries west of Benin instead using Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; equivalent to UTC with no offset).

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Zaire Province

Zaire is one of the 18 provinces of Angola.

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Mpinda, Santo António do Zaire.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyo

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