Mbanza Kongo

Mbanza Kongo, Vestiges of the Capital of the former Kingdom of Kongo, represents the political and religious centre of a vast African kingdom that was transformed by the arrival of the Portuguese in the late 15th century.
The site (now a town of some 175,000 inhabitants) is located on a plateau. It comprises both archaeological remains of the precolonial period as well as colonial structures – often overlapping each other. The Kingdom of Kongo has strong intangible links with the slave trade and the early conversion of African kings to the Catholic religion (with a Cathedral and Jesuit College in place from the early 17th century).
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- Full Name
- Mbanza Kongo, vestiges of the capital of the former Kingdom of Kongo
- Unesco ID
- 1511
- Country
- Angola
- Inscribed
- 2017
- Type
- Cultural
- Criteria
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- Categories
- Archaeological site - Civilizations of Sub-Saharan Africa
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Site History
2017 Inscribed
2016 Incomplete - not examined
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