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Kisangani

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Kisangani , formerly Stanleyville, city (1996 est. pop. 500,000), capital of Orientale province, N central Congo (Kinshasa), a port on the Congo River. The city is the terminus of steamer navigation on the Congo from Kinshasa and is a transportation center for NE Congo. It is on a short rail line (to Ubundi) that skirts the Boyoma Falls . Manufactures include metal goods, furniture, and beer, and cotton and rice are shipped from the city. Kisangani has an international airport and hydroelectricity is produced on a nearby tributary of the Congo.

Founded in 1883 by the explorer Henry M. Stanley and originally located on a nearby island in the river, the city, as Stanleyville, became the stronghold of Patrice Lumumba in the late 1950s. After the assassination of Lumumba in 1961, Antoine Gizenga set up a government there that rivaled the central government in Leopoldville (now Kinshasa). Gizenga's regime was quashed in 1962, but in 1964, 1966, and 1967 the city was the site of temporarily successful revolts against the central government. Kisangani has a campus of the National Univ. of the Congo and a museum.

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Kisangani

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Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo Falls Station, Stanleyville Founded in 1883 and named after the nearby falls, it was later named ‘Stanley's Town’ after Sir Henry Morton Stanley^†, who travelled across Africa through the Congo in 1874–7. In 1966 it received its present Swahili name ‘In the Sand’ or ‘On the Sandbank’, a reference to the fact that it is situated on the sandy northern shore of an island in the Congo River.

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Kisangani

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Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville) City and port on the River Congo, n central Democratic Republic of Congo. English explorer Henry M. Stanley founded Kisangani in 1883. During the 1950s, it was the headquarters of the Congolese National Movement led by Patrice Lumumba. During the 1960s, it was the focus for a series of unsuccessful rebellions. In 1996 it was at the centre of the Hutu refugee crisis in Zaïre (now D.R. Congo). Pop. (2002 est.) 510,300.

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Stanleyville

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Stanleyville Congo (Kinshasa): see Kisangani .

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Stanleyville

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

Stanleyville •anvil, Granville •Jacksonville • Nashville •Greville, Neville •Melville • Grenville • weevil •Merthyr Tydfil • Louisville •Mandeville • Stanleyville • Knoxville •Orville • Townsville • Léopoldville •Huntsville • Elisabethville •vaudeville • Bougainville •Brazzaville • chervil • tranquil •Anwyl • pigswill • jonquil •whippoorwill • frazil • fusil

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