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Katanga

Katanga proper noun: a region in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, originally conquered by the Congo Free State (owned by the Belgian king, not his European state) but administered as a corporate mining concession.

Proper noun

Katanga

  1. A region in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, originally conquered by the Congo Free State (owned by the Belgian king, not his European state) but administered as a corporate mining concession.
  2. Since 1910, an autonomous part of the Belgian colony Congo.
  3. Since 1933, a regular province, until 1947 however named after its capital: Elisabethstad in Dutch or Elisabethville in French.
  4. In 1960 a unilaterally declared independent state; in 1961-63 reconquered by Congo and reorganized in three provinces until 1966; renamed Shaba 1972-1997 as part of president Mobutu's Zaireanization.

Words formed from Katanga

Questions about Katanga

What does Katanga mean?
Katanga means a region in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, originally conquered by the Congo Free State (owned by the Belgian king, not his European state) but administered as a corporate mining concession.
What part of speech is Katanga?
Katanga is a proper noun.

Words near Katanga in the dictionary

  1. katanagari
  2. katanas
  3. Katandra
  4. Katandra West
  5. Katang
  6. Katanga
  7. Katangan
  8. Katangans
  9. Katangese
  10. Katangtang
  11. katanin

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