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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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    Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking)...
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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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    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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    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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    alongside the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the Angolan War for Independence (1961–1975) and then against the MPLA in the ensuing...
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    en Angola (1845–1941), Orgeval: published by the author, 1977 René Pélissier, La colonie du Minotaure: Nationalismes et revoltes en Angola (1926–1961)...
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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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    The economy of Angola remains heavily influenced by the effects of four decades of conflict in the last part of the 20th century, the war for independence...
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    Agostinho Neto (category Communism in Angola)
    having led the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the war for independence (1961–1974). Until his death, he led the MPLA in the civil...
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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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    Portuguese from 1570 to 1976; Kongo: Mbânza Kôngo), is the capital of Angola's northwestern Zaire Province with a population of 148,000 in 2014. M'banza...
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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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    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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    National Front for the Liberation of Angola (Portuguese: Frente Nacional de Libertação de Angola – FNLA) party (1961–present), and its military wing the...
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    She is best known for her feature film Sambizanga (1972) on the 1961–1974 war in Angola. Born Sarah Ducados in 1929 in Condom, Gers, the daughter of emigrants...
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  • 1961 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1961. 1961 (MCMLXI) was...
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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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    Huambo (redirect from New Lisbon, Angola)
    formerly Nova Lisboa (English: New Lisbon), is the third-most populous city in Angola, after the capital city Luanda and Lubango, with a population of 595,304...
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    The German campaign in Angola took place before the official declaration of war between Germany and Portugal in March 1916. German and Portuguese troops...
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  • commander-in-chief in French Algeria), it took place from the afternoon of 21 to 26 April 1961 in the midst of the Algerian War (1954–1962). The organisers of the putsch...
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    the Lusophone world through the presence of large expat communities of Angolans, Brazilians, Cape Verdeans, Portuguese, and Timorese found throughout the...
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    Loango-Angola is the name for the possessions of the Dutch West India Company in contemporary Angola and the Republic of the Congo. Notably, the name...
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    Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa: Lisbon's Three Wars in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea 1961–74. Solihull: Helion and Company. p. 134. ISBN 978-1909384576...
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    Angolan nationality law is regulated by the Constitution of Angola, as amended; the Nationality Act, and its revisions; and various international agreements...
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  • American actor (Baretta, Cargo, American Pop). Ângelo Victoriano, 56, Angolan four-time Olympic Hall of Fame basketball player. Roberto Cavalli, 83,...
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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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  • 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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    and Asia. Cuba supported Algeria in 1961–1965, and sent tens of thousands of troops to Angola during the Angolan Civil War. Other countries that featured...
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    Keeping Force (IPKF) in 1987 against Tamils (LTTE) in Sri Lanka; by Angola during the Angolan Civil War; and Yugoslavia (1991–1996). In 2018, Turkey was accused...
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