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éDZDZ屹

/ ˈlɪəpəʊldˌvɪl; leɔpɔlvil /

noun

  1. the former name (until 1966) of Kinshasa
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Henri Lopes was born on Sept. 12, 1937, in what was then éDZDZ屹, later Kinshasa, the capital of what was then the Belgian Congo.

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The crew was nervous as the plane approached Leopoldville, now Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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The crew was nervous as the plane approached éDZDZ屹, now Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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“We are happy to have given the Congo, despite the greatest difficulties, the essential elements for the reinforcement of a country on the road to development,” Baudouin said at the ceremony in the city named after his ancestor, éDZDZ屹, which is now Kinshasa.

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Dulles cabled the C.I.A. station chief in Leopoldville, now Kinshasa, that Lumumba’s death was “an urgent and prime objective.”

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