Everything about Portuguese West Africa totally explained
Portuguese West Africa was the name of the
Portuguese overseas colonies on the south-west African coast, which now form the republic of
Angola.
History
The colonial history of Angola lasted from its annexation as a colony in 1655 until its designation as an overseas province, effective
October 20, 1951.
While Portugal defeated the
Kongo Kingdom in the
Battle of Mbwila on
October 29, 1665, but the Portuguese suffered a disastrous defeat at the
Battle of Kitombo when they tried to invade Kongo in 1670. Full Portuguese administrative control of the interior wasn't achieved until the beginning of the twentieth century.
In 1884 Britain, which up to that time had steadily refused to acknowledge that Portugal possessed territorial rights north of Ambriz, concluded a treaty recognizing Portuguese sovereignty over both banks of the lower Congo, but the treaty, meeting with opposition in
England and
Germany, wasn't ratified. Agreements concluded with the
Congo Free State, the
German Empire and
France in
1885-
1886 fixed the limits of the province, except in the south-east, where the frontier between Barotseland (north-west
Rhodesia) and Angola was determined by an Anglo-Portuguese agreement of
1891 and the arbitration award of the
King of Italy in
1905.
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