Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Mbanza Kongo, Vestiges of the Capital of the former Kingdom of Kongo' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| The earliest documented kings referred to their city in their correspondence as "the city of Congo" (cidade do Congo), and the name of the city as Sxc3xa3o Salvador appears for the first time in the letters of xc3x81lvaro I of Kongo (1568xe2x80x931587) and was carried on by his successors. | WIKI |
| When the Portuguese arrived in Kongo, Mbanza Kongo was already a large town, perhaps the largest in sub-equatorial Africa, and a letter from the Portuguese ambassador to Lisbon compared the size of the city (inside the inner walls) to the Portuguese town of xc3x89vora. | WIKI |
| The town grew substantially as the kingdom of Kongo expanded and grew, and an ecclesiastical statement of the 1630s related that 4,000-5,000 baptisms were performed in the city and its immediate hinterland (presumably the valleys that surround it), which is consistent with an overall population of 100,000 people. | WIKI |
| Of these, perhaps 30,000 lived on the mountain and the remainder in the valleys around the city. | WIKI |
| The city was sacked several times during the civil wars that followed the Battle of Mbwila (or Ulanga) in 1665, and was abandoned in 1678. | WIKI |
| Other important sites include the Jalankuwo, the Manikongo's judgement tree, which can still be found in the downtown area of the city, along with the sunguilu, a rectangular ground level structure where local tradition says the king's body was washed before burial. | WIKI |
| The city was at the heart of the vast Kongo Kingdom that in turn was linked to a vast intercontinental network. | UNESCO |