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    The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm") is a maximum-security...
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    The Angolan War of Independence (Portuguese: Guerra de Independência de Angola; 1961–1974), known as the Luta Armada de Libertação Nacional ("Armed Struggle...
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    The Angolan Civil War (Portuguese: Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The...
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    Portuguese Angola refers to Angola during the historic period when it was a colony of the Portuguese Empire (1575–1951) in southwestern Africa, an Overseas...
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    and in 1955 the first successful oil wells were drilled in Angola. By 1960 the Angolan economy had been completely transformed, boasting a successful...
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    Angola was first settled by San hunter-gatherer societies before the northern domains came under the rule of Bantu states such as Kongo and Ndongo. In...
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    Liberation of Angola (MPLA) against the pro-western National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA)...
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    Independence of Angola (Portuguese: União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola, abbr. UNITA) is the second-largest political party in Angola. Founded...
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    Jonas Savimbi (category 20th century in Angola)
    was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)...
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    Agostinho Neto (category Communism in Angola)
    1922 – 10 September 1979) was an Angolan communist politician and poet. He served as the first president of Angola from 1975 to 1979, having led the...
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    in Angola, representing about 5% of Cuba's population. The Cuban intervention in Angola was envisioned as a short-term commitment, but the Angolan government...
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    (Gallon, 2010) [monotypic] Bacillochilus xenostridulans (Gallon, 2010) — Angola Brachionopus (Pocock, 1897) To quote Platnick's World Spider Catalog v....
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    Cabinda Province (category 1975 establishments in Angola)
    from the rest of Angola by a narrow strip of territory belonging to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly known, up until 1960, as the Belgian...
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    The culture of Angola is influenced by the Portuguese. Portugal occupied the coastal enclave Luanda, and later also Benguela, since the 16th/17th centuries...
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    Portuguese Colonial War (category 1960s in Angola)
    as the War of Liberation (Guerra de Libertação), and also known as the Angolan, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambican War of Independence, was a 13-year-long conflict...
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    fever in Angola]". Médecine Tropicale. 65 (2): 127–128. PMID 16038348. Ndayimirije N, Kindhauser MK (May 2005). "Marburg hemorrhagic fever in Angola--fighting...
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    Miguel Díaz-Canel (category 1960 births)
    Larjiq Zada (Latin American Spanish: [miˈɣel ˈdi.as kaˈnel]; born 20 April 1960) is a Cuban politician and engineer who is the 3rd and current First Secretary...
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  • cerclealgerianiste.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-06-18. "Victimes religieuses en Algérie". La Croix (in French). 2016-04-15. ISSN 0242-6056. Retrieved 2017-06-18...
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  • Players & Squad, Numbers". China constrói estádios desportivos em Moçambique, Angola e Cabo-Verde – CRI. Portuguese.cri.cn (April 15, 2008). Retrieved on 2011-09-04...
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    Cuban soldiers to Angola between November 1975 and April 1976 stunned the world; ... by 1988, there were 55,000 Cuban soldiers in Angola." Gleijeses 2002...
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    Liberation of Angola (MPLA) during that country's lengthy civil war. The MPLA's primary opponent, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)...
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    Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Angola. It is a tonal language. The vast majority of present-day speakers live...
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  • Battle of Cuito Cuanavale (category Battles involving Angola)
    and east of the town of Cuito Cuanavale, Angola, by the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) and advisors and soldiers from Cuba...
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  • p. A10. Guerrillas of Angola's former rebel movement UNITA, long supported by Mobutu in an unsuccessful war against Angola's government, also fought...
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  • Carvalho Santos, 83, Angolan politician, co-designer of the flag of Angola. Torstein Seiersten, 92, Norwegian Olympic speed skater (1956, 1960). David Shaffer...
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    Democratic Republic of the Congo (category States and territories established in 1960)
    Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania (across Lake Tanganyika), Zambia, Angola, the Cabinda exclave of Angola, and the South Atlantic Ocean. Centered on the Congo Basin...
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  • January 2023. "Angola, um país em construção, livre e soberano". "La Nación / ANR tiene más de 2.500.000 afiliados habilitados para votar en diciembre"....
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  • République Démocratique du Congo, Angola, L'Harmattan, 2009, 344 p. (ISBN 2296226736 et 9782296226739, présentation en ligne, lire en ligne). Khabirov, Valeri...
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    Angola. Angolan nationalists had long had close ties with the Congo where many had lived as exiles. The União dos Povos de Angola (UPA), an Angolan nationalist...
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  • Maria Eugénia Neto (category First ladies of Angola)
    Silva Neto (born 8 March 1934) is a Portuguese-Angolan writer. She was the inaugural first lady of Angola. Born in Montalegre, she was educated in Lisbon...
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