This article argues that the source of the saints was more likely to be from Catholics from the Kingdom of Kongo which had been Catholic for 300 years and had made its own form of Christianity in the interim.doi:info:doi/10.1080/0144039X.2015.1103524Thornton...
The Congo River gets its _【1】___ from the Kingdom of Kongo. It is an ___【2】___ country on the left bank(河岸) of the river. The Congo River is the __【3】___ largest river in Africa and the ___【4】___ river in the world.This river runs for about 2920 miles _...
姆班扎刚果历史中心(Mbanza Kongo, Vestiges of the Capital of the former Kingdom of Kongo),旧名为圣萨尔瓦多(São Salvador),是安哥拉西北部的城市,毗邻刚果民主共和国,是刚果王国的古都。它附近有皇家住宅、法庭和皇家陵墓。在鼎盛时期,姆班扎刚果的班图战士所控制的领土,远从非洲的中大西洋海岸延伸到宽果河,北...
3.Also calledZaire.a river in central Africa, flowing in a great loop from SE Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Atlantic. ab. 3000 mi. (4800 km) long. 4.Kongo (def. 1). Con`go•lese′(-gəˈliz, -ˈlis)adj.,n.,pl.-lese. ...
The Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão found what was known as the Kingdom of Kongo in 1484. It was a Portuguese colony until independence in 1975 and in the same year civil war broke out until 2002. The war ravaged the country’s political and social institutions and littered the country ...
The Kongo Kingdom and its Neighbours." In General History of Africa V: Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, edited by B.A. Ogot, 546-587. California: Heinemann.VANSINA, Jan. The Kongo Kingdom and its neighbors. In: OGOT, Bethwell Allan (ed.). General history of ...
The first that was written of the hot and humid river basin that straddles the Equator on the west of the great African continent came from Portuguese travellers in the 15th century. They had en- countered a place called the Kingdom of Kongo and, with its capital city of Mbanza Kongo, it...
In the Nintendo 3DS remake, his appearance is the same as the rest of the skeleton sailors of the S.S. Chuckola. Bluster Kong –A rich arrogant Kong that runs Bluster Barrelworks on Kongo Bongo Island. Leo Luster –Bluster's alter-ego from the Hunka Hunka Burnin' Bluster episode of ...
Geographically, the coverage of Africa also is spotty, with historians concentrating on document-rich areas such as central Mozambique, the Cape Colony, and the Kingdom of Kongo, which had a state-sponsored version of Christianity in place by the early 16th century.l Thus, large sections of ...
Sign of the Cross: contexts for the Ivory Cross of San Millán de la Cogolla The Sign of the Cross Under the sign of the cross in the kingdom of Kongo: Religious conversion and visual correlation in early modern Central Africa THE SIGN OF THE CROSS ...