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The information provided on this website : kingdom of Congo (Kongo dia Ntotela) comes from different sources, and all the sources agree. Kongo is a people’s names, after a long migration got settled to XIII century to the mouth of this big stream. 

In 1483, the Portuguese explorer sailed up the uncharted Congo River, finding Kongo villages and (in Angolan coasts) becoming the first European to encounter the Kongo kingdom.

Kingdom of Kongo was a powerful and very structured state, the Manikongo led this powerful and structured Kongo kingdom, it extended from Democratic Republic of Congo, north of Angola, southern Congo (Brazzaville) a part of Gabon and Cameroun.

This website Kongo dia Ntotela, gives us a wonderful opportunity to learn about; customs, rituals, traditions, diversity geographical, ethnic, linguistic and cultural of the Kongo Kingdom. For many people, "kongo" means immediately the African continent. On this day two countries and one river have the same name "Kongo" which they wrote rather "Congo". In fact, Kongo evokes also a seven centuries of history. An indissolubly story of the Central Africa.