Pedro II Nkanga a Mvika was a ruler of the kingdom of Kongo during the kingdom's first conflict with the Portuguese. He was the founder of the royal House of Nsundi and could trace his descent to one of Afonso I's daughters. He was succeeded by his son Garcia I, who was crowned in 1624.[1]
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PedroII Nkanga a Mvika was a ruler of the kingdom ofKongo during the kingdom's first conflict with the Portuguese. He was the founder of the royal House...
The Kingdom ofKongo (Kongo: Kongo dya Ntotila or Wene wa Kongo; Portuguese: Reino do Congo) was a kingdom in Central Africa. It was located in present-day...
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the House of Nsundi, later known as the Kinkanga a Mvika, took control ofKongo in 1622 under PedroII, and retained it through the reign of his son, Garcia...
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The Kongo Civil War (1665–1709) was a war of succession between rival houses of the Kingdom ofKongo. The war waged throughout the middle of the 17th and...
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place where the first king ofKongo ruled before crossing the Congo River to conquer Kongo. That same year, King PedroIIofKongo mentioned that the place...
manikongo ofKongo who ruled from April 27, 1624 to March 7, 1626. Garcia I was the son of King PedroII. He was the second and last king from the House of Nsundi...
1545–1561. King Diogo was the grandson of king Afonso I ofKongo and won the throne after overthrowing his uncle Pedro Nkanga a Mvemba and forcing him to...
King Pedro IV, one of several rival rulers ofKongo, to reoccupy the ancient and now abandoned capital of São Salvador. There was a great deal of religious...
arrived in the Kingdom ofKongo shortly after the first Portuguese explorers reached its shores in 1483. Portuguese left several of their own number and...
Henrique II was ruler of the Kingdom ofKongo in 1794 – 1803. His rule came after the end of a period of conflict in the kingdom after the death of Afonso...
The following is an incomplete list of wars involving Portugal. Military history of Portugal Unofficial Portuguese soldiers just helped the Zamorin. See...
overthrow Garcia organized by sons ofPedroII failed. In 1670, the Portuguese governor sought to take over Kongo, then involved in a civil war, and invaded...
malambila Kongo" (Kinkanga, Kimpanzu and Kinlaza are the three stones on which Kongo cooked). In KiKongo the language of the kingdom ofKongo, the name of the...
The Battle of Mbandi Kasi was a military engagement between forces of Portuguese Angola and the Kingdom ofKongo during their first armed conflict which...
with the Kingdom of the Kongo in 1660. António I succeeded his father, Garcia II, as the King of the Kongo in 1661. António led the Kongo against the Portuguese...