Dutch Angola
| Dutch Loango-Angola | ||||||||||
| Loango-Angola | ||||||||||
| Dutch colony | ||||||||||
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.jpg) The city of Luanda by Johannes Vingboons (1665)
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| Capital | Luanda | |||||||||
| Languages |
Dutch (official) Kongo, Chokwe, Umbundu, Kimbundu, Ngangela, Kwanyama, Lingala |
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| Religion | Dutch Reformed, African traditional religion | |||||||||
| Political structure | Colony | |||||||||
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| • | 1641-1642 | Pieter Moorthamer | ||||||||
| • | 1642-1648 | Cornelis Hendrikszoon Ouman | ||||||||
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| • | Capture of Luanda | 26 August 1641 | ||||||||
| • | Recapture of Luanda | 21 August 1648 | ||||||||
| Currency | Dutch guilder | |||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Angola Republic of the Congo
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Loango-Angola is the name for the possessions of the Dutch West India Company in contemporary Angola and the Republic of the Congo. Notably, the name refers to the colony that was occupied from the Portuguese between 1641 and 1648. After Angola was recaptured by the Portuguese in 1648, Dutch trade with Loango-Angola did not stop, however. From about 1670 onward, the Dutch West India Company acquired slaves from the Loango region on a regular basis, and Dutch free traders continued this practice until after 1730.
Due to the distance between Luanda and Elmina, the capital of the Dutch Gold Coast, a separate administration for "Africa South" was established at Luanda during the period of the Dutch occupation.
As part of the Groot Desseyn plan, the Dutch West India Company, which had been founded in 1621, tried to capture Luanda after they had captured Salvador da Bahia, the capital of Brazil. Under the leadership of Piet Hein, a Dutch fleet tried to capture Luanda in 1624, but failed, because Filips van Zuylen had tried to capture the city a few months earlier as well, leading the Portuguese to build reinforcements.
After Piet Hein captured the Spanish treasure fleet in 1628, the Dutch West India Company once again tried to set the Groot Desseyn plan in motion. With plenty of resources to pay for their military expenditure, the Dutch successfully captured Recife and Olinda, the core region of Brazilian sugar cane plantations, in early 1630.
In 1641, a Dutch fleet under the command of Cornelis Jol, seized Luanda from the Portuguese. Dutch forces took control of Luanda and signed a treaty with Queen Nzinga of the Ndongo Kingdom. Nzinga unsuccessfully attacked the Portuguese at Massangano. She recruited new fighters and prepared to engage the Portuguese in battle again, but Salvador Correia de Sá led Portuguese forces from Brazil in expelling the Dutch and reasserting control in Angola. Nzinga's forces retreated to Matamba again.
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