Katanga
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Katanga may refer to:
Political entities
[edit]- Katanga Province, a former province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- State of Katanga, a breakaway state which existed from 1960 to 1963
- Katanga Crisis or "Congo Crisis", a period of turmoil in the First Republic of the Congo from 1960 to 1965
- Haut-Katanga Province, a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, created in 2015
- History of Katanga, details of the region from early times, under Luba kingdom, Belgian rule, independent Congo
Places
[edit]- Katanga, Dominican Republic, a section of Los Mina, founded by maroons from the Congo who fled French rule
- Katanga Plateau, a plateau in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Garenganze or Katanga in Central Africa, the home of the pre-colonial Yeke Kingdom of Msiri
- Katanga River, a river in Russia
- Katanga Slum, a settlement in central Uganda
People
[edit]- Germain Katanga (born 1978), a Congolese militia leader accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court
- Simon Katanga, a fictional character in the film Raiders of the Lost Ark
Other uses
[edit]- 1817 Katanga, a main-belt asteroid
- Luba-Katanga language, a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Katanga insurgency, an ongoing rebellion by a number of rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
See also
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