Kinshasa (redirect from Leopoldstad)
largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one of the world's...
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archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its ecclesiastic territory includes the capital city of Kinshasa and surrounding...
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list of place names of towns and cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which were subsequently changed after the end of Belgian colonial rule....
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Bethune (CD&V), herself born in Kinshasa (then Léopoldville/Leopoldstad) in the Belgian Congo, introduced a resolution on 19 February to launch a historical...
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Joris Six (category 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Baliana in Algeria, and apostolic vicar of the vicariate-general Leopoldstad in Belgian Congo. His father Cyriel Hendrik Six (born on December 25, 1855) was...
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behalf of the International Association of the Congo. He named it Léopoldville (French) or Leopoldstad (Dutch) in honour of King Leopold II who was his...
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February 1925, Sabena inaugurated the first Congo flight, when a Handley Page W8f departed the airfield for Leopoldstad. A notable visitor was Charles Lindbergh...
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Henry Morton Stanley (category International Association of the Congo)
of Congo. Horizon. ISBN 9789463962094. Struye, Lieven; De Gueldre, Alain; Bernaerts, Bruno; Adriaenssens, Ivo (1987). "Stanley sticht Leopoldstad na heroïsche...
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Personal details Born (1958-07-16) 16 July 1958 (age 66) Leopoldstad, Belgian Congo (now Kinshasa, Congo-Kinshasa) Political party Christian Democratic and...
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DC-6 which departed from Brussels, Belgium at 17:17 GMT en route to Leopoldstad, Congo with stops at Rome-Ciampino, Italy and Kano, Nigeria under the command...
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of the Congo gained independence from Belgium, members of the Force Publique (Dutch: Openbare Weermacht) garrison near Léopoldville/Leopoldstad mutinied...
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