also known as King Afonso I, was the sixth ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo from the Lukeni kanda dynasty and ruled in the first half of the 16th century....

The Kingdom of Kongo (Kongo: Kongo Dya Ntotila or Wene wa Kongo; Portuguese: Reino do Congo) was a kingdom in Central Africa. It was located in present-day...

Alfonso V of Aragon (1396–1458), king of Naples as Alfonso I Afonso I of Kongo (1456–1543), first Christian king of the Kingdom of Kongo Alfonso I Piccolomini...

to mean "person of the kingdom".[citation needed] Mwene is attested in very early texts, notably the letters of King Afonso I of Kongo, where he writes...

of India Nzinga Mbemba (1505–1543), also known as "Afonso I of Kongo" Afonso II of Kongo (1561) Afonso III of Kongo (1666–1667) Afonso, 1st Duke of Braganza...

King João I (born Nzinga-a-Nkuwu; ca. 1440 – 1509) was the 5th ManiKongo of the Kingdom of Kongo (Kongo: Kongo-dia-Ntotila) between 1470 and 1509. He voluntarily...

Nkumbi-a-Mpudi Diogo I was manikongo in 1545–1561. King Diogo was the grandson of king Afonso I of Kongo and won the throne after overthrowing his uncle...

father of the founder of Kongo. Divisions emerged within the kanda during succession disputes, for example, following the death of Afonso I in 1542,...

Bernardo I of Kongo (died 1567) was a 16th-century manikongo (ruler) of the Kingdom of Kongo, a region encompassing areas in 21st-century Angola and the...

Pedro I Nkanga a Mvemba was manikongo of the Kingdom of Kongo from 1543 until being deposed in 1545. Pedro I was the son of King Afonso I and became his...

2010 populations are: Afonso I of Kongo, the sixth ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo. Zamenga Batukezanga, writer, was born in Kongo Central. Paul Panda Farnana...

Afonso III Mvemba a Nimi (also spelt Affonso III) was a ruler of the kingdom of Kongo during its civil war period. King Afonso III first enters written...

of Ndongo and Matamba (c. 1583–1663), Central African warrior queen João I of Kongo, also known as Nzinga a Nkuwu or Nkuwu Nzinga Afonso I of Kongo (c...

Afonso II was a ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo in 1561. Little is known about Afonso II or his reign. Duarte Lopes told Filippo Pigafetta the Italian humanist...

Kôngo), is the capital of Angola's northwestern Zaire Province with a population of 148,000 in 2014. Mbanza Kongo was the capital of the Kingdom of Kongo...

Congolese name. Notable people with the name include: Afonso I of Kongo, aka Nzinga Mbemba, King of Kongo (1509–1543) Chancel Mbemba (born 1994), Congolese...

King of Sweden (1008) Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland (1386) Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba Afonso I of Kongo Humabon, Rajah of Cebu...

Afonso II of Kongo and Nkondo was a ruler of the kingdom of Kongo in the period following the Kongo Civil War. He was a member of the House of Kimpanzu...

status of bishop in 1518, and who worked in Kongo from 1521 until his death in 1531. The Church that Afonso created was not simply a copy or extension of the...

José I Mpasi a Nkanga, or Zuzi, was ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo between 1779 and 1785. He was the first ruler from the branch of the House of Kinlaza...

The Kongo people (Kongo: Bisi Kongo, EsiKongo, singular: Musi Kongo; also Bakongo, singular: Mukongo or M'kongo) are a Bantu ethnic group primarily defined...

to be confused with Afonso II of Kongo from the 16th century, took the throne after the death of António I. The ascension of Afonso, a Kimpanzu partisan...

1495 - 1531) was a prince of Kongo and a son of Afonso I. He became a Catholic priest shortly after the Christianization of the kingdom and dedicated...

Afonso V of the Congo (Ndo Mfunsu V in Kikongo and Afonso V in Portuguese) was a Kinlaza manikongo of the Kingdom of Kongo from 1785 to 1787. He succeeded...

mentioned in early travelers' accounts of the region, nor is it mentioned in the titles of King Afonso I of Kongo in 1535, though Kakongo, Vungu, and Ngoyo...

battle thanks to the early death in battle of Kongolese King Afonso I of Kongo.[citation needed] The revolt of Kimpa Vita was another attempt to regain...

Nlaza of Kongo was a manikongo from the Lukeni kanda dynasty and the 3rd ruler of the Central African kingdom of Kongo in the early 15th century. Little...

earliest known ruler of Nsundi was Afonso I of Kongo. A son of Nzinga a Nkuwu, who reigned in the late fifteenth century, Afonso Mvemba a Nzinga became king...

the kingdom of Kongo into the 1540s, expanding its borders to the south and east. The expansion of Kongo's population, coupled with Afonso's earlier religious...

a way of communication and unity. 1506: Leonardo da Vinci completes the Mona Lisa. 1506: King Afonso I of Kongo wins the battle of Mbanza Kongo, resulting...