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	History of Angola
		In 1482, when the Portuguese first landed in what is now northern Angola, they encountered the Kingdom of the Congo, which stretched from modern Gabon in the north to the Kwanza River in the south.
		Many scholars agree that by the 19th century, Angola was the largest source of slaves not only for Brazil, but also for the Americas, including the United States.
		Periodic, separate negotiations between the leadership of the two armed FLEC factions and the Angolan Government have failed to produce a settlement to the conflict.
	www.historyofnations.net /africa/angola.html (1097 words)

	History of Angola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Angola proper, and the whole coast-line of what now constitutes the province of that name, was explored by Diogo Cão during 1482 and the three following years.
		The first governor sent to Angola was Paulo Dias de Novais, a grandson of Bartolomeu Dias, who reduced to submission the region south of the Kwanza nearly as far as Benguela.
		The "Democratic Republic of Angola" was founded on November 24, 1975, with Holden Roberto and Jonas Savimbi as co-presidents and Jose Ndele and Johny E. Pinnock as co-prime ministers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Angola (1908 words)

	Angola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In April 2005, Angola was in the midst of an outbreak of the Marburg virus which was rapidly becoming the worst outbreak of a haemorrhagic fever in recorded history, with over 237 deaths recorded out of 261 reported cases, and having spread to 7 out of the 18 provinces as of April 19, 2005.
		Angola is bordered by Namibia to the south, Zambia to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north-east, and the South Atlantic Ocean to the west.
		Angola is divided into an arid coastal strip stretching from Namibia to Luanda; a wet, interior highland; a dry savanna in the interior south and southeast; and rain forest in the north and in Cabinda.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Angola (2322 words)

	Angola on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Angola is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, by Congo (Kinshasa) on the north and northeast, by Zambia on the east, and by Namibia on the south.
		Angola's rich agricultural sector was formerly the mainstay of the economy and currently provides employment for the majority of the people.
		Angola is facing one of the most dramatic famine crisis to have hit the African continent in the last ten years.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/angola_history.asp (2558 words)

	The Economy and Economic History of Angola
		Up until the Christian era the area that is now Angola was populated by hunter/gatherer tribal groups speaking a language in the Khoisan family of languages, similar to the Bushmen of the Namib desert area.
		Central Angola is a plateau of altitude 3500 to 4500 feet.
		In the twentieth century commercial agriculture was the primary industry of Angola with three fourth of the labor force involved in agriculture.
	www.applet-magic.com /angola.htm (506 words)

	Embassy of Angola: History
		The first large political entity in the area, known to history as the Kingdom of Congo, appeared in the thirteenth century and stretched from Gabon in the north to the river Kwanza in the south, and from the Atlantic in the west to the river Cuango in the east.
		The Portuguese colony of Angola was founded in 1575 with the arrival of Novais with a hundred families of colonist and four hundred soldiers.
		Angola, a Portuguese colony, was in fact a colony of Brazil, paradoxically another Portuguese colony.
	www.embangola.at /history.htm (1360 words)

	Angola - History and Politics
		Angola is to open an embassy in Israel in the next few months.
		Angola’s business world is almost exclusively Lusophone, and foreigners will also find themselves gravely disadvantaged in any legal battle, to the extent that most goes to virtually any lengths to avoid such a confrontation.
		Angola has a rich natural endowment, including substantial reserves of petroleum, diamonds and other minerals: abundant arable land and a diverse climate that favours a wide variety of agricultural crops; some of the best livestock and fishing resources; important forest areas; and the considerable hydroelectric and irrigation potential of its many rivers.
	www.iss.co.za /AF/profiles/Angola/History.html (3863 words)

	History of ANGOLA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Angola is a most unsettled region when the European scramble for Africa begins in the 1880s.
		The emigration of Portuguese peasants to Angola, to be settled on African farms, is greatly accelerated.
		As a result Angola is ill-equipped to respond positively in the aftermath of a 1974 coup in Portugal.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ad33 (1600 words)

	History of Capoeira Angola
		Capoeira Angola has its roots in Bantu tradition and was used by the enslaved Africans of Brazil as a form of revolution.
		In keeping with African war strategies, Capoeiristas masked the art's effectiveness from plantation overseers.
		For years Capoeira was practiced in secrecy and was not lawful to practice and teach until after the 1930s--about forty years after the abolition of slavery.
	www.capoeira-angola.org /history.htm (125 words)

	History of Angola
		History of Angola, IN Angola was platted by Thomas Gale and Cornelius Gilmore on June 28, 1838.
		Angola was first incorporated as a town on October 1, 1866 and then as a city in 1906.
		In 1900, the population of Angola was 2,141.
	www.angolachamber.org /angolaINhistory_printable.html (412 words)

	Angola. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The first inhabitants of the area that is now Angola are thought to have been members of the hunter-gatherer Khoisan group.
		The Portuguese first explored coastal Angola in the late 15th cent., and except for a short occupation (1641–48) by the Dutch, it was under Portugal’s control until they left the country late in the 20th cent.
		That same year the Portuguese national assembly changed Angola’s status from an overseas province to an “autonomous state” with authority over internal affairs; Portugal was to retain responsibility for defense and foreign relations.
	www.bartleby.com /65/an/Angola.html (1840 words)

	LSP History
		Angola was all but forgotten while the state concerned itself with the depression and World War II.
		During the late 1960's, Angola became known as "The Bloodiest Prison in the South" due to the number of inmate assaults.
		ACA accreditation forms the foundation of operations at Angola and is a continuing catalyst for positive growth and change.
	www.corrections.state.la.us /lsp/history.htm (1227 words)

	Angola History & Angola Culture \| iExplore.com
		Angola was made part of the Congo Kingdom by Wene in the 14th century.
		Under the constitution of the ‘Second Republic of Angola’ introduced in 1992, a unicameral 223-seat legislature and executive president are elected by universal adult suffrage for spells of four and five years respectively.
		Angola’s largest trading partners are Portugal, Brazil, France and the USA, from whom it imports much of its food and almost all its manufactured equipment.
	www.africa.com /dmap/Angola/History (885 words)

	history of Angola -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		A renewed study of the natural history of man was stimulated by European encounters with the great anthropoid apes of Africa (Angola) and Asia (the Sunda Islands) at the beginning of the 16th century.
		Angola, which is the seventh largest country in Africa, has an area of 481,351 square miles (1,246,700 square kilometers).
		History is a science—a branch of knowledge that uses specific methods and tools to achieve its goals.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9109704 (736 words)

	CHARLES BRAY's Angol Journal
		Endowed with great mineral wealth and tremendous agricultural potential, Angola should be able to provide a prosperous living for roughly 11.5 million people in a territory covering 1 246 700 km [481 350 sq miles].
		Cabinda is separated from the rest of Angola by the Democratic Republic of Congo.
		In October 2003, Angola was embroiled in civil war for virtually the entire quarter century since its independence.
	www.greatestcities.com /users/cbray5003/Africa/Angola (2023 words)

	Angola History
		By late 1988, however, despite fertile land, large deposits of oil and gas, and great mineral wealth, Angola had achieved neither prosperity nor peace-- the national economy was stagnating and warfare was ravaging the countryside.
		The primary objective of the first Portuguese settlers in Angola, and the motive behind most of their explorations, was the establishment of a slave trade.
		Those Portuguese who settled in Angola in the early twentieth century were peasants who had fled the poverty of their homeland and who tended to establish themselves in Angolan towns in search of a means of livelihood other than agriculture.
	www.country-studies.com /angola/history.html (964 words)

	A History of the Angola 3 Case
		Angola is an 18,000-acre complex of antebellum plantations that the state of Louisiana purchased and converted into a prison around the turn of the century.
		In the early 1970s, Angola was known as the most brutal prison in the United States, with stabbings an almost-daily occurrence.
		Failing to acknowledge the Panthers' history of establishing children's breakfast programs, publishing an important community newspaper, or inventing the practice of "copwatching," Cullen was allowed to argure to the jury that Woodfox's membership in the organization constituted evidence that he was a murderer.
	www.prisonactivist.org /angola/history.shtml (4504 words)

	Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum/The Angola Story
		Problems at Angola were brought to light when 31 inmates cut their Achilles tendons in protest of the hard work and brutality.
		During the late 1960's, Angola became known as the "Bloodiest Prison in the South" due to the number of inmate upon inmate assaults and deaths.
		After initial accreditation, Angola began to build upon this operational foundation through independent ACA accreditation of its training academy and health care program, which required not only meeting the national standards for adult correctional institutions, but also additional standards developed specifically for correctional academies and performance-based health care standards for adult institutions.
	www.angolamuseum.org /story.htm (3028 words)

	Angola
		Angola was settled by Portuguese in the 15th century and remained a Portuguese colony until it received independence in 1975.
		The first European to reach Angola was the Portuguese explorer Diogo Cao, who landed at the mouth of the Congo River in 1483.
		In January 1975 a transitional Government was established, comprising representatives of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA), the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), and the Portuguese Government.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/countries/Angola.html (368 words)

	Angola: Rewriting history
		On the long journey to visit the wondrous landscape of Angola, you can find locals walking from village to village in the baking hot sun, balancing bananas or other wares sturdily on their heads as they walk to or return from the local market.
		With peace, however, Angola is in the process of reawakening, and revisiting a painful past.
		One was used, we are told, to baptize the future slaves before their departure to the Americas; the other, to inebriate the newly indoctrinated with traditional alcohol; and a third with water with which to send them on their treacherous voyage.
	www.ontheglobe.com /notes/notes96.htm (1131 words)

	Angola: history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In Angola the most important one was the Kongo, covering the strip which today forms the frontier between Angola and Zaire, and reaching its apogee from the mid-13th to 14th centuries.
		Between September and October 1975, Angola was attacked on all sides: Zaire invaded from the north while South Africa, with the complicity of UNITA, attacked from the south to prevent a Marxist government.
		In December 1988, Angola, South Africa and Cuba signed a Tripartite Accord in New York, which put an end to the war between Luanda and Pretoria, and provided for the independence of Namibia and withdrawal of South African and Cuban troops from Angola.
	gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_history.cfm?Id=197 (2137 words)

	Angola History Summary
		FLAG: The upper half is red, the lower half fl; in the center, a five-pointed yellow star and half a yellow cogwheel are crossed by a yellow machete.
		Angola is located on the west coast of Africa, south of the equator.
		Angola is slightly less than twice the size of Texas, with a total area of 1,246,700 sq km (481,353 sq mi), including the exclave of Cabinda (7,270 sq km/2,810 sq mi), which is surrounded by the Democratic Republic of the.....
	www.bookrags.com /history/govtpolitics/angola-wen-02 (209 words)

	angola legal history at Business.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Lockdown at Angola: a history of the Angola 3 case...
		History of ANGOLA including Angola and slaves, Colonial period, Independence.
		Embassy of the Republic of Angola, Washington, DC...
	www.business.com /popular/angola_legal_history (257 words)

	An MBendi Profile: Angola - Mining: Diamond Mining - Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Angola has extensive diamond reserves (estimated at 180 million carats), principally in the provinces of Lunda Norte and Lunda Sul in the central and northeastern parts of the country.
		Angola must, however, diversify from both petroleum and diamond mining in the medium-to-long terms in order to achieve sustainable development.
		The pipe is approximately 3.3 kilometres in length and 500 metres in width, and lies 40 kilometres north of the Luo concession on the Chicapa River.
	www.mbendi.co.za /indy/ming/dmnd/af/an/p0005.htm (2108 words)

	Village Profile presents Angola, IN
		The Chamber staff is dedicated to their task of improving the quality of life in the Angola area and are there for you to call upon when you need assistance.
		Angola, the Steuben County seat, is surrounded by unincorporated villages and small towns, ranging in population from less than 100 to 1,500.
		First settled by pioneers from Angola, New York, Angola was platted by Thomas Gale and Cornelius Gilmore on June 28, 1838, and incorporated as a village that same year.
	www.villageprofile.com /indiana/angola/angola.html (1155 words)

	General Information and History, Angola and The United Methodist Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Angola is located on the southwest coast of Africa.
		When Dr. Neto, Angola's first president, died of cancer in a Moscow hospital, he was succeeded by the country's current head of state, President José Eduardo dos Santos.
		Angola has between 8,000,000 and 20,000,000 land mines, among the highest number in the world.
	gbgm-umc.org /africa/angola/angolgen.html (860 words)

	Independence (from history of Angola) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The small exclave of Cabinda is separated from Angola by a strip of Zaire.
		Includes a timeline, a narrative history of the process of drafting the document, and images of documents and artifacts from the exhibit.
		Covers its history, drafting procedure and authoring by Thomas Jefferson, profiles of the signers, and details on the Graff House, U.S., where the declaration was written.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-43874 (765 words)

	Angola
		Angola underwent a transition from a one-party socialist state to a nominally multiparty democracy in 1992.
		Angola is the second-largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa, yet its people are among the continent's poorest.
		Angola: Government - Government After many years of one-party Marxist rule, Angola is now a struggling multiparty...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107280.html (1093 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Angola, 1815-1880
		Hitherto, Angola's primary economic function had been to supply Brazil with a steady supply of slaves.
		Angola now was regarded an area for white settlement; the search for mineral deposits and profitable plantation products increased.
		In the 1870es an attempt was made to cross the African continent from Angola to Mocambique and claim the territory of the interior.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/centrafrica/angola181580.html (303 words)

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