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Benguela, the Glossary

Benguela (Umbundu: Luombaka) is a city in western Angola, capital of Benguela Province.^[1]

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1610s establishments in Angola
1617 establishments in Africa
1617 establishments in the Portuguese Empire
Populated coastal places in Angola
Populated places established in 1617
Populated places in Benguela Province

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.

Angolan Civil War

The Angolan Civil War (Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002.

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Assemblies of God

The World Assemblies of God (AG), officially the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, is an international Pentecostal denomination.

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Baía Azul

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Baía Farta

Baía Farta is a town and municipality in Benguela Province in Angola. Benguela and Baía Farta are municipalities of Angola and Populated places in Benguela Province.

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Baptist Convention of Angola

The Baptist Convention of Angola (Convenção Baptista de Angola) is a Baptist Christian denomination in Angola.

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Baptist World Alliance

The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) is an international Baptist association of Christian churches with an estimated 51 million people in 2023 with 253 member bodies in 130 countries and territories.

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Benguela Airport

Benguela Airport (Aeroporto de Benguela - 17 de Setembro) is an airport serving Benguela, the capital city of Benguela Province in Angola.

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Benguela Province

Benguela (Luombaka Volupale) is a province of Angola, situated in the west of the country.

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Benguela railway

The Benguela Railway (Caminho de Ferro de Benguela (CFB)) is a Cape gauge railway line that runs through Angola from west to east, being the largest and most important railway line in the country.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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The Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos), also known as the 25 April (25 de Abril), was a military coup by military officers that overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo government on 25 April 1974 in Lisbon, producing major social, economic, territorial, demographic, and political changes in Portugal and its overseas colonies through the Processo Revolucionário Em Curso.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Coffee

Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted coffee beans.

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Connecticut Supreme Court

The Connecticut Supreme Court, formerly known as the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, is the highest court in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Copperbelt

The Copperbelt is a natural region in Central Africa which sits on the border region between northern Zambia and the southern Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Evangelical Congregational Church in Angola

The Evangelical Congregational Church in Angola (Igreja Evangélica Congregacional em Angola) is a Reformed Christian denomination in Angola.

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Evangelical Reformed Church in Angola

The Evangelical Reformed Church in Angola is a Reformed denomination in the country of Angola established by the missionaries of the Swiss Reformed Church.

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Fishing industry in Angola

Fishing in Angola is mainly performed by foreign fleets.

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Governor

A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of a state's official representative.

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Huambo

Huambo, 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 in the city and a population of 713,134 in the municipality of Huambo (Census 2014). Benguela and Huambo are municipalities of Angola.

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Jetty

A jetty is a structure that projects from land out into water.

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Katanga Province

Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Leila Lopes

Leila Luliana da Costa Vieira Lopes Umenyiora (born 26 February 1986) is an Angolan beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe 2011.

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Lightering

Lightering (also called lighterage) is the process of transferring cargo between vessels of different sizes, usually between a barge (lighter) and a bulker or oil tanker.

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Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.

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List of municipalities of Angola

The following is a list of municipalities of Angola, grouped by province. Benguela and list of municipalities of Angola are municipalities of Angola.

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Lobito

Lobito is a municipality in Angola. Benguela and Lobito are municipalities of Angola and Populated places in Benguela Province.

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Luís Sá Silva

Luís Jorge Sá Silva (born 23 August 1990 in Benguela) is an Angolan racing driver.

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain.

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Manganese

Manganese is a chemical element; it has symbol Mn and atomic number 25.

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Maria Araújo Kahn

Maria Araújo Kahn (born August 20, 1964) is an American lawyer who is serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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Matias Damásio

Matias Damásio (born 9 May 1984) is an Angolan musician, singer and songwriter in popular music, romantic music and in Kizomba.

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Miss Universe 2011

Miss Universe 2011 was the 60th Miss Universe pageant, held at the Credicard Hall in São Paulo, Brazil on 12 September 2011.

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Place of worship

A place of worship is a specially designed structure or space where individuals or a group of people such as a congregation come to perform acts of devotion, veneration, or religious study.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Portuguese Angola

In southwestern Africa, Portuguese Angola was a historical colony of the Portuguese Empire (1575–1951), the overseas province Portuguese West Africa of Estado Novo Portugal (1951–1972), and the State of Angola of the Portuguese Empire (1972–1975).

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Benguela

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Benguela (Dioecesis Benguelensis) is a diocese located in the city of Benguela in the ecclesiastical province of Huambo in Angola.

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Sisal

Sisal (Agave sisalana) is a species of flowering plant native to southern Mexico, but widely cultivated and naturalized in many other countries.

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Slavery in Angola

Slavery in Angola existed since the late 15th century when Portugal established contacts with the peoples living in what is the Northwest of the present country, and founded several trade posts on the coast.

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production.

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Sulfur

Sulfur (also spelled sulphur in British English) is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16.

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Tobacco

Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus Nicotiana of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants.

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Umbundu

Umbundu, or South Mbundu (autonym úmbúndú), one of many Bantu languages, is the most widely-spoken autochthonous language of Angola.

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Universal Church of the Kingdom of God

The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG; Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus; Iglesia Universal del Reino de Dios, IURD) is an international Evangelical Neo-charismatic Christian denomination with its headquarters at the Temple of Solomon in São Paulo, Brazil.

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