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	Japanese battleship Kongo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kongo was laid down on January 17, 1911, launched on May 18, 1912 and completed and sent to Japan on August 16, 1913.
		Kongo spent nearly all her wartime service escorting aircraft carriers, although she did participate in some surface actions, such as the bombardment of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, on 14 October 1942, along with her sister ship Haruna.
		The battleship was preceded by the 1877 Japanese corvette Kongo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_battleship_Kongo (563 words)

	Kongo People
		Kongo leaders were targeted for conversion by Christian missionaries, and often divisions between followers of Christianity and followers of the traditional religions resulted.
		When the Kongo Kingdom was at its political apex in the 15th and 16th centuries, the King, who had to be a male descendant of Wene, reigned supreme.
		Nzambi was the supreme god for all in the Kongo Kingdom, and the intermediary representations included land and sky spirits and ancestor spirits, all of whom were represented in nkisi objects.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/people/Kongo.html (445 words)

	Angola - Kongo Kingdom
		Kongo evolved in the late fourteenth century when a group of Bakongo (Kongo people) moved south of the Congo River into northern Angola, conquering the people they found there and establishing Mbanza Kongo (now spelled Mbanza Congo), the capital of the kingdom.
		Alvaro I and his successor, Alvaro II, brought stability to the Kongo Kingdom by expanding the domain of their royal authority while keeping at bay encroachment by the Portuguese, whose colony during the late years of the sixteenth century remained confined to the area south of Kongo.
		Adding to Kongo's troubles in the early 1600s was a general dissatisfaction among the Bakongo with their rulers, some of whom were greedy and corrupt.
	countrystudies.us /angola/5.htm (973 words)

	AllRefer.com - Kongo, kingdom of, Africa History (African History) - Encyclopedia
		Kongo, kingdom of[kOng´gO, kong´–] Pronunciation Key, former state of W central Africa, founded in the 14th cent.
		Kongo was ruled by the manikongo, or king, and was divided into six provinces, each administered by a governor appointed by the manikongo.
		The area of Kongo was incorporated mostly into Angola and partly into the Independent State of the Congo (see Congo, Democratic Republic of the) in the late 19th cent.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Kongo-ki.html (462 words)

	Rev. Kongo Langlois Roshi
		Kongo Roshi, as an American, uniquely brought a deep and rich experience to bear in transmitting those most refined and precious arts that have their basis in oriental culture including Zen and Taoism.
		Kongo Roshi was born Richard Valentine Langlois in Chicago, Illinois, in 1935.
		In 1987, Kongo Roshi was presented with the Inka Shomei (seal of transmission) from the line of Asahina Sogen, Primate of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism.
	www.zbtc.org /kongobio.html (1786 words)

	This Month's Focus-February
		The Kongo region of Angola was the fount of independence struggle of the Angolans against the Portuguese.
		Language: The heart language of the Kongo is a Bantu language, characterized by the use of prefixes as indicators of classes of nouns.
		Catholicism mainly from the Portuguese colonists is by far the strongest Christian influence the Kongo have received, with its primary influences being felt in the 19th and 20th centuries.
	cesa.imb.org /TheRegion/Angola/this_month's_focus.htm (1178 words)

	Kongo - Britannica Concise
		Kongo - group of Bantu-speaking peoples related through language and culture and dwelling along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Pointe-Noire, Congo (Brazzaville), in the north, to Luanda, Angola, in the south.
		Kongo language - a Bantu language of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family.
		It was the capital of the Kongo kingdom from the 16th to the 18th century and was known as M'banza or Bonza Congo until renamed São Salvador by the Portuguese for a cathedral that was built there in 1534.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9369362 (474 words)

	DDG Kongo Class
		The Kongo Class is the 4th generation Guided Missile Destroyer (DDG) and has a different appearance and contents from previous Japanse DDG designs.
		Kongo, first of a class of four 26,230 ton battlecruisers, was built at Barrow-in-Furness, England.
		In 1929-31, Kongo was modernized at Yokosuka Dockyard, and was thereafter rated as a battleship.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/japan/kongo.htm (1828 words)

	kongo
		The Kongo demonstrate the extreme complexity of their traditions on major occasions, such as the investiture of a chief or at funerals.
		The Kongo pantheon was small: one all-powerful god who gave healing powers to the king, to the nganga, and to the heads of cults.
		Besides their textiles of great renown, the Kongo had a funerary art of decorated steles and funerary statues in stone, very often depicting the chief seated cross-legged in a posture of reflection.
	www.zyama.com /kongo/pics..htm (744 words)

	Heart of Darkness: : From Kongo to Congo: The History Of The Belgian Congo (To 1963) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Duties of being the highest priest in the land meant mediating between the living, nza ya yi, and the dead, nzi ya bafwa.
		The slaves were being taken from the Kongo to Brazil and the Catholic clergy were among the worst slave traders (Gondola 31-32).
		Mbanza Kongo, the kingdoms most wealthy market, and province was losing power to Luanda, a new market and colony set up by the Portuguese.
	caxton.stockton.edu /hod/history (3577 words)

	AFRICAN VOICES: Kongo Grave and Power Figures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Kongo people are an ethnic group united by a common history, culture, and language.
		The Kingdom of Kongo began from a group of small prosperous farming villages on the lower Zaire river, within easy trading distance of sources of copper, iron, and salt.
		Majority of Kongo farm on small plots of land and are Christians who incorporate local religious beliefs, especially veneration of the ancestors, into their religious practices.
	www.rit.edu /~africa/kongo/kongoPg1.shtml (180 words)

	KONGO SOLVED? - 16 JULY 2001 [1910 hours] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		KONGO's list had been checked at 12 degrees and her navigator reported that other than the water flooding the chain locker and speed reduction, they were holding station.
		KONGO began to roll onto her beam ends as officers and crew sought to scramble and slip off her sides into the dark seas.
		There seems no doubt that the hypothesis of 1992 is true: the KONGO was lost as a result of progressive flooding that brought her to a halt, and was capsizing and already finished when she exploded.
	www.combinedfleet.com /eclipkong.html (6745 words)

	african tribes kongo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		__ "the Kongo occupy the region at the mouth of the Congo River.
		__ "The homeland of the Kongo in Angola is the tropical savannas of Northern Angola.
		Kongo leaders were targeted for conversion by Christian missionaries, and often divisions between followers of Christianity and followers of the traditional religions resulted." You will find material related to art, culture, history, religion, political structure and more.
	www.archaeolink.com /african_tribes_kongo.htm (486 words)

	African Arts: Ethnographic notes on Kongo musical instruments. @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The basic text on Kongo musical instruments is Bertil Soderberg's thesis (1956), which is based on an exhaustive search of the literature of the day, a good deal of museum research, and his field experience as a missionary.
		In the last eighty years the Kongo musical repertoire has been greatly impoverished, along with the ritual and ceremonial life it used to enhance; minkisi are still much in use but no longer take spectacular public form (Van Hee 2000).
		In Kongo, ngoma was used when there was dancing and when ancestors or chiefs were being addressed, but it does not have a ritual named after it.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:94010402&refid=holomed_1 (4697 words)

	Kongo, kingdom of on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		KONGO, KINGDOM OF [Kongo, kingdom of], former state of W central Africa, founded in the 14th cent.
		History as sentimental education: a preface to Holy Ground and the destruction of the Kingdom of Kongo.
		There are many Kongo worlds particularities of magico-religious beliefs among the Vili and Yombe of Congo-Brazzaville.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Kongo-ki.asp (561 words)

	Kongo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kingdom of Kongo, a kingdom in southwestern central Africa
		Bakongo, an ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Angola and Brasil
		Kongo Central, the name of the former Bas-Congo province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kongo (150 words)

	Kongo arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		But the word "Kongo", written "Congo" today, also evoques seven centuries of history - a history that is inseperable from that of central Africa.
		"Kongo" is first of all the name of a people, who after a long migration, settled down in the XIII Century at the mouth of the great river.
		Fruits of military conquest, results of Kongo lineages, or simply attracted by the splendor of the Kingdom, these other groups adopted a large part of the Kongo culture.
	www.tamarin.com /kongo/kongdire1.html (239 words)

	Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou \| Kongo \| American Museum of Natural History
		Kongo principles of tying and binding are dramatically visible in objects seen on Petwo altars and in the secret Bizango rites.
		Kongo vocabulary is prevalent in the ritual invocations that accompany the drawing of certain vévé signs.
		Kongo and related peoples also have richly developed cosmograms referring to what is sometimes called the 'Four Moments of the Sun'.
	www.amnh.org /exhibitions/vodou/roots5.html (197 words)

	Japanese Navy Ships--Kongo (Battlecruiser & Battleship, 1913-1944)
		As Japan's great southern offensive progressed, she covered the invasion of Java, fired her 14-inch guns in a bombardment of Christmas Island, and was part of the raid against British shipping in the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal.
		She was not in combat during 1943 and the first part of 1944, but participated in the Battle of the Philippine Sea in mid-June 1944 as part of the Japanese vanguard carrier division.
		As part of the Center Force, Kongo survived a submarine attack on 23 October, carrier air attacks in the Sibuyan Sea the next day, the Battle off Samar against U.S. escort carriers and destroyers on 25 October and an Air Force high-level bombing attack as she withdrew from the battle area on the 26th.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/japan/japsh-k/kongo2.htm (764 words)

	Kongo Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Kongo derived religions in the Americas sometimes include Bantu elements that are not Kongolese at all and most Kongo derived faiths in the Americas have been influenced, sometimes very much, by Yoruban religion.
		Narrowly speaking, a Kongo or Kongo derived religion is one practiced in either of the Congos or among Kongo speaking peoples in neighboring Angola, as well as any religion made up of predominantly Kongo elements.
		Also, while strictly speaking a Bantu religion and not Kongo, many elements of traditional Shona religion would be identified by Kongo religionists as the same as their faith.
	www.nganga.com /dondeKongo.html (688 words)

	Kongo (Kituba) Language Page - Handbook of African Language Resources (ASC)(MSU) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The term "Kongo" encompasses a group of Bantu dialects, Guthrie's general heading (H10) as well as the subbranch (H16).
		Kongo is a literary language and a language vehicular (known as Kituba) used throughout this area of Africa.
		Kongo is used as a lingua franca in Zaire and in metropolitan Brazzaville.
	www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/Kongo_root.html (230 words)

	Kongo Cosmogram
		This is the simplest manifestation of the Kongo cruciform, a sacred "point" on which a person stands to make an oath, on the ground of the dead and under all-seeing God.
		The Kongo yowa cross does not signify the crucifixion of Jesus for the salvation of mankind; it signifies the equally compelling vision of the circular motion of human souls about the circumference of its intersecting lines.
		The bottom half of the Kongo cosmogram was also called kalunga, referring, literally, to the world of the dead as complete (lunga) within itself and to the wholeness that comes to a person who understands the ways and powers of both worlds.
	www.webarchaeology.com /html/kongocos.htm (1320 words)

	kitsch parade :: Christian Influence on Kongo Religious and Royal Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This was possible because Kongo, as a voluntary convert, had considerable leeway to its particular form of Christianity.(2)" In addition to local convention in ritual, the art forms influenced by the imported religion have a completely different formal and symbolic character than the indigenous religious sculpture.
		One of the more interesting aspects of Kongo art is the influence of Christianity; the resolution of European aesthetic as well as religious conventions with conventional Kongo religion is interesting as a historical and artistic issue.
		For quite a number of years, the Kongo have effectively retained their identity in the face of a potentially overpowering influence.
	kitschparade.ath.cx /wri/kongo.phtml (1065 words)

	Sub-Sahara African Christianity: The Church among the Kongo
		Christianity among the Kongo people, who lived and still live in what is now northern Angola and much of coastal Congo, began with the visit of Diego Cam, a Portuguese explorer, in 1484.
		The Manikongo (ruler of the Kongo) was impressed with what they had learned and asked for missionaries to be sent to the Kongo.
		After the collapse of the kingdom, the essentially Roman Catholic Christianity of the Kongo was transformed by the social pressures of war and deprivation.
	www.bethel.edu /~letnie/AfricanChristianity/SSAKongo.html (776 words)

	Dona Beatriz: Kongo Prophet \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The kingdom of Kongo, the wealthiest and most powerful state in the Atlantic region of Central Africa during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, began to dissolve in the seventeenth century under internal and external pressures.
		According to this vision, Jesus was born in Mbanza Kongo and baptized not at Nazareth but in the northern province of Nsundi, while Mary's mother was a slave of the Kongo nobleman Nzimba Mpangi.
		Dona Beatriz and her followers briefly occupied Mbanza Kongo, from which she sent emissaries to spread her teachings and urge rulers of the divided Kongo territories to unite under one king.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/pwmn_4/hd_pwmn_4.htm (504 words)

	Kongo -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		There are many dialects of Kongo; San Salvador Kongo, spoken in Congo (Kinshasa) and Angola, has more than 1.5 million speakers and is often listed as a separate language because it is not...
		The main ethnic groups are the Kongo, the Ubangi, the Teke, and the Sanga.
		The Kongo people live in Congo and Angola, the Zande in Sudan, the Chokwe in Angola, the Bemba in Zambia, and the Alur in Uganda.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9045999 (689 words)

	The Story of Africa\| BBC World Service
		Following the defeat of a branch of the Mbundu, the focus of power had shifted 200 kilometres south west, south of the River Kongo, where a capital was established called Mbanza Kongo (Sao Salvador under Portuguese rule).
		Bethwell Ogot of Maseno University, Kenya, on the splendour of the Kongo
		At its height, Kongo was the biggest state in western Central Africa.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/10chapter2.shtml (621 words)

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