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    also known as King Afonso I, was the sixth ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo from the Lukeni kanda dynasty and ruled in the first half of the 16th century....
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    The Kingdom of Kongo (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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    Nkumbi-a-Mpudi Diogo I was manikongo in 1545–1561. King Diogo was the grandson of king Afonso I of Kongo and won the throne after overthrowing his uncle...
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    Manikongo (redirect from Mwene Kongo)
    to mean "person of the kingdom".[citation needed] Mwene is attested in very early texts, notably the letters of King Afonso I of Kongo, where he writes...
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  • king of Aragon and Navarre Alfonso I, Duke of Gandia (1332–1412) Alfonso V of Aragon (1396–1458), king of Naples as Alfonso I Afonso I of Kongo (1456–1543)...
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    Nzinga-a-Nkuwu João I (né Nzinga-a-Nkuwu) was the 5th ManiKongo of the Kingdom of Kongo (Kongo: Kongo-dia-Ntotila) between 1470 and 1509. He voluntarily...
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  • Afonso II was a ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo in 1561. Little is known about Afonso II or his reign. Duarte Lopes told Filippo Pigafetta the Italian humanist...
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    father of the founder of Kongo. Divisions emerged within the kanda during succession disputes, for example, following the death of Afonso I in 1542,...
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  • of India Nzinga Mbemba (1505–1543), also known as "Afonso I of Kongo" Afonso II of Kongo (1561) Afonso III of Kongo (1666–1667) Afonso, 1st Duke of Braganza...
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    Bernardo I of Kongo (died 1567) was a 16th-century manikongo (ruler) of the Kingdom of Kongo, a region encompassing areas in 21st-century Angola and the...
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