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ID: 7000625
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000625
Record Type:
administrative
Kananga (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 05 53 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -5.8833
decimal degrees
Long: 022 26 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 22.4333
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded by the German explorer Hermann von Wissmann; became a military post which was the site of a rebellion of African troops against Belgian authorities in 1895; followed Lusambo as capital of the former Kasai province in 1950.
Names:
Kananga
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
original name, restored in 1972
Luluabourg
(
H
,
O
)
............
1884-1972
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Democratic Republic of the Congo
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kasaï Central
(province) (
P
)
................
Kananga
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1884; settled earlier
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Kananga..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 458
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 710
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
95
Luluabourg..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 458
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 710
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
585
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 458
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 710
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
95
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
585
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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