Portuguese Angola

1575-1975 Portuguese possession in West Africa

conflict in Angola between 1961 and 1975

United Nations Security Council resolution

United Nations Security Council resolution

United Nations Security Council resolution

United Nations Security Council resolution

fortress

17th-century Dutch territorial possession in Angola

1904 battle

1622 battle between Portuguese Angola and the Kingdom of Kongo

UNESCO World Heritage

1670 battle

building in Angola

political party in Angola

Pombeiros were African and sometimes mulatto agents who purchased slaves in the African interior on behalf of the Portuguese crown or private Portuguese traders for the Atlantic slave trade. The term pombeiro comes from Pumbe, a market located by the Malebo Pool.

1670 battle

fort in Cambambe, Angola

Assimilado or assimilada (if female), literally "assimilated", was a status assigned from the 1910s to the 1960s to those African subjects of the colonial Portuguese Empire who had reached a level of "civilization", according to Portuguese legal standards, that theoretically qualified them for full rights as Portuguese citizens. Portuguese colonizers claimed the goal of their assimilation practices to be the "close union of races of different degrees of civilization that help and support each other loyally"; however, this notion of a "close union" differed from its practical application in the

African warriors from Angola

1681 battle

currency of the former Portuguese colony of Angola until 1914