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Encyclopedia > Ngoyo

Ngoyo was a central African kingdom state of the Woyo tribe that existed in the south of Cabinda, what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola during the Iron Age of the second millennium. It was founded by Bantous and other Bantu speaking people around the fifthteenth century and its economy rested on the draft of slaves. It was on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, just north of the Congo (Zaire) River. In 1783 it was combined with the neighboring state of Kakongo. The Kingdom disintegrated in the 1830s after the nobles failed to elect a new king. Map of Angola, highlighting Cabinda Cabinda is a small territory, currently administered as an exclave of Angola, resulting from the fusion of three kingdoms: Ngoyo, Loango and Cacongo. ...


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  • History of the kingdom state of N'goyo
    • http://www.rgle.org.uk/Cabinda/ngoyo.html

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Cabinda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (581 words)
Cabinda is a small territory, currently administered as an exclave of Angola, resulting from the fusion of three kingdoms: Ngoyo, Loango and Cacongo.
With 7,283 km², it has a population of 300,000 inhabitants, of which about one third are refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zaïre.
Portuguese explorers, missionaries and traders arrived at the mouth of the Congo (or Nzere) river in the mid- 15th century, making contact with the powerful King of the Congo ( Manikongo).
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