Governorate Loango-Angola Loango-Angola | |||||||||
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| 1641–1648 | |||||||||
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.jpg) The city of Luanda by Johannes Vingboons (1665) | |||||||||
| Status | Dutch colony | ||||||||
| Capital | Fort Aardenburgh | ||||||||
| Common languages | Dutch (official) Kongo, Chokwe, Umbundu, Kimbundu, Ngangela, Kwanyama | ||||||||
| Religion | Dutch Reformed Traditional African religions | ||||||||
| Director | |||||||||
• 1641–1643 | Pieter Moorthamer and Cornelis Nieulant | ||||||||
• 1643–1645 | Hans Mols | ||||||||
• 1644-1647 | Heynderick van Redinckhoven | ||||||||
• 1645–1648 | Cornelis Hendrikszoon Ouwman | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| 26 August 1641 | |||||||||
| 21 August 1648 | |||||||||
| Currency | Dutch guilder | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Angola Republic of the Congo | ||||||||
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 refers to the colony that was captured from the Portuguese between 1641 and 1648. Due to the distance between Luanda and Elmina, the capital of the Dutch Gold Coast, a separate administration for the southern districts of Africa was established at Luanda during the period of the Dutch occupation.[1]
After Angola was recaptured by the Portuguese in 1648, Dutch trade with Loango-Angola did not stop, however. From about 1670 onward, the Dutch West India Company acquired slaves from the Loango region on a regular basis, and Dutch free traders continued this practice until after 1730.[2]
- ^ Postma 1990, p. 60.
- ^ Postma 1990, p. 101.