Pahlavi, Reza
Pahlavi, Reza (1878–1944) Shah of Iran and founder of the modern Iranian state. In 1921, he took part in a nationalist coup and built up a modern army as defence minister and prime minister. In 1925, Pahlavi deposed Ahmad Shah and assumed the crown. He enforced intensive social and legal reforms, crushed tribalism, and ended the influence in Iran of Britain and the Soviet Union. In 1941, when British and Soviet forces occupied Iran, he abdicated in favour of his son, Muhammad
Pahlavi.
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CONGO: ARMED REBEL SECT SEEKS TO REUNIFY 'KINGDOM OF KONGO'.
News Wire article from: Interpress Service; 3/24/2008; 700+ words
; ...seeking to restore a lost ethnic kingdom against a government that seems...devastated compound of the Bundu dia Kongo or "Kingdom of Kongo," as Congo is spelled in the...Kikongo language. The Bundu dia Kongo -- led by Ne Muanda Nsemi, a...
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CONGO: ARMED REBEL SECT SEEKS TO REUNIFY 'KINGDOM OF KONGO'
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 3/24/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...seeking to restore a lost ethnic kingdom against a government that seems...devastated compound of the Bundu dia Kongo or "Kingdom of Kongo," as Congo is spelled in the...Kikongo language. The Bundu dia Kongo -- led by Ne Muanda Nsemi, a...
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The Kongo kingdom and papacy. (the Catholic Church's attempts to curtail the excesses of 17th century slave trade)(includes bibliography)
Magazine article from: History Today; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...The decisive contact between the kingdom of Kongo and the papacy was established in...royal influence over the church in Kongo, Alvaro II, a grandson of Afonso...creation of a separate diocese for Kongo. His request raised few if any difficulties...
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The destruction of the Kingdom of Kongo.
Magazine article from: Civil Rights Journal; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...for decades before Cao reached the Kingdom of Kongo. The Canaries were mentioned by...beyond. What historians know of the Kongo Kingdom is fragmentary. Sources...When the court and king of the Kongo first learned that a whale-colored...
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History as sentimental education: a preface to Holy Ground and the destruction of the Kingdom of Kongo.
Magazine article from: Civil Rights Journal; 1/1/2002; 700+ words
; The mantra about repeating the history one hasn't learned is true riot only for delinquent high school students and pundits quoting Santayana. But it has become by so much the dominant rationale for the historical impulse that we risk neglecting other reasons history repays study: Indeed, the two
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African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery.(Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 9/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery...Central Africa, it is not entirely clear why Kongo is the book's primary focus. The Kingdom of Kongo, whose socio-political history is briefly...
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Kongo Slavery Remembered by Themselves: Texts from 1915*
Magazine article from: The International Journal of African Historical Studies; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...pedigree, was a regular feature of Kongo social structure, the necessary...legitimate matrilineal descent. In Kongo, as also in West African societies...been a part of the structure of the Kongo kingdom in the sixteenth century, but the...
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Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era...religion. Carefully discussing the Kongo kingdom as it was fracturing under the violence...splendid depiction of religion in the Kongo Kingdom from the late-fifteenth...
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There are many Kongo worlds particularities of magico-religious beliefs among the Vili and Yombe of Congo-Brazzaville.
Magazine article from: Africa; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...of what was being said about Kongo peoples was based mainly on...do not refer to themselves as Kongo globally and they do not venerate...unimportant now south of the Kongo river. This Mbumba is the...century descriptions of the Vili kingdom of Loango on the Atlantic coast...
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Le roi du Kongo et les monstres sacres: mythes et rites bantous, III.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...DE HEUSCH, LUC. Le roi du Kongo et les monstres sacres: mythes...correctly, he is healthy and the kingdom prospers. If a crime is committed...in his body and so does the kingdom suffer from storms or famine...directly afflicted, so is the kingdom. While living, the sacred...
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kingdom of Kongo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
kingdom of Kongo , former state of W central...vassal of Portugal. The kingdom disintegrated into a number...Portuguese. The area of Kongo was incorporated mostly into...Thornton, The Kingdom of Kongo (1983); A. W. Hilton...
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Kongo kingdom
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Kongo kingdom A kingdom in Central Africa, established south of the River Congo by 1300 which became one of the most powerful kingdoms in the region. The Kongo people traded over long distances, exploiting iron and salt...
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Kongo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...national language of Zaire. History and Cultural Relations The legendary origin of most of the Kongo peoples is Mbanza Kongo, the capital of the Kongo Kingdom, founded perhaps in the thirteenth century but long since reduced to a village —...
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kingdom of the Congo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
kingdom of the Congo see Kongo, kingdom of .
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Affonso I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1460-1545) was a king of Kongo whose reign marked the high...Christian influence in the kingdom, as well as the failure...o reached the Kingdom of Kongo in west-central Africa in 1482, contacts between Kongo and Portugal multiplied...
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