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What does Katanga mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Katanga? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A region in southeastern Congo, originally conquered by the Congo Free State (owned by the Belgian king, not his European state) but administered as a corporate mining concession.
  2. Since 1910, an autonomous part of the Belgian colony Congo.
  3. Since 1933, a regular province, until 1947 however named after its capital: Elisabethstad in Dutch or Elisabethville in French.
  4. In 1960 a unilaterally declared independent state; in 1961-63 reconquered by Congo and reorganized in three provinces until 1966; renamed Shaba 1972-1997 as part of president Mobutu's Zairization.
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Relative peace and stability prevailed until 1977 and 1978 when Katangan rebels, staged in Angola, launched a series of invasions into the Katanga region.
In the acquiescence to this request the Katanga indirectly owes much of its advance.
Sections of the army mutinied and the mineral rich province of Katanga seceded.
Only last year twelve Boer wagons appeared upon the Katanga border and were, contrary to all international law, warned off.
On 28 June 2007, the Military Court of Katanga delivered its verdict on the case, acquitting all defendants.
His chief problem was to get the copper from the Katanga to Europe in the shortest possible time.

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