Loango, Republic of Congo

Place in Kouilou, Republic of the Congo
4°39′22″S 11°48′41″E / 4.65611°S 11.81139°E / -4.65611; 11.81139CountryRepublic of the CongoDepartmentKouilouDistrictLoangoTime zoneUTC+01:00

Loango (can also be written as Luango, Lwango, Luangu, Lwangu, Luaangu or Lwaangu) is a town of the Republic of the Congo.

Since 2011 it has been the capital of the Kouilou Department and of the new Loango District.[1]

Location

Loango lies on the south coast of the Loango Bay, to the southwest of Diosso, a few kilometers north of the city of Pointe-Noire.[2]

History

City of Loango in 1747

Diosso was the former capital of the Kingdom of Loango and home to its rulers' mausoleum.[3] Roman Catholic missionaries were active in Diosso, which had a royal palace.[4] The port of Loango was formerly a major slavery port, but the site has now been abandoned and few traces remain.[5]

The first radiotelegraph link in the tropics, between Brazzaville and Loango, was created around 1910 using techniques developed by Joseph Bethenod, chief engineer of the Société française radio-électrique (SFR).[6]

See also

  • Loango slavery harbour

Notes

  1. ^ "Loi n°20-2011 du 17 mai 2011 portant création du district de Loango et érection de la localité de Loango en chef-lieu du département du Kouilou" (PDF). sgg.cg. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  2. ^ Loango Map — Satellite Images of Loango.
  3. ^ Jones 1983, p. 49.
  4. ^ Martin 2009, p. 31.
  5. ^ Congo: Loango slavery port abandoned.
  6. ^ Delacroix & Piernas 2016, p. 3.

Sources

  • Clark, John Frank; Decalo, Samuel (2012), Historical Dictionary of Republic of the Congo, Scarecrow Press, ISBN 978-0-8108-4919-8, retrieved 2018-01-17
  • "Congo: Loango slavery port abandoned", The Morning Call, retrieved 2018-01-17 – via AfricaNews
  • Delacroix, Laurent; Piernas, Gersende (2016), Société française radio-électrique (SFR - Thomson) (PDF) (in French), Roubaix: Archives nationales du monde du travail, retrieved 2017-10-05
  • Jones, Adam (1983), German Sources for West African History, 1599-1669, Steiner, ISBN 978-3-515-03728-0, retrieved 14 March 2011
  • "Loango Map — Satellite Images of Loango", maplandia, retrieved 2018-01-17
  • Martin, Phyllis (2009), Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville: Mothers and Sisters in Troubled Times, Indiana University Press, ISBN 978-0-253-22055-4, retrieved 13 March 2011
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