Angola

Old African kingdoms, Portuguese colonial mapping and routes deep into the interior give these maps of Angola several overla...

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Old African kingdoms, Portuguese colonial mapping and routes deep into the interior give these maps of Angola several overlapping histories, from the seventeenth century into the twentieth. Bellin's charts follow Luanda, Benguela and the rivers between them, and earlier regional sheets name Kongo, Angola and neighbouring territories. Vandermaelen's atlas sections and later expedition maps reach across the Cuanza basin and through Bié towards central Africa, and geological, vegetation and agricultural maps show resources and cultivation. The prints show Luanda, M'banza-Kongo, inland communities and landscapes, along with subjects connected with the Atlantic slave trade and European descriptions of local people.

Old African kingdoms, Portuguese colonial mapping and routes deep into the interior give these maps of Angola several overlapping histories, from the seventeenth century into the twentieth. Bellin's charts follow Luanda, Benguela and the rivers between them, and earlier regional sheets name Kongo, Angola and neighbouring territories. Vandermaelen's atlas sections and later expedition maps reach across the Cuanza basin and through Bié towards central Africa, and geological, vegetation and agricultural maps show resources and cultivation. The prints show Luanda, M'banza-Kongo, inland communities and landscapes, along with subjects connected with the Atlantic slave trade and European descriptions of local people.

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