Image: Kongo. jpg | Kongō Gumi, used to be the world's oldest continuously operating company, constructed several Japan's cultural assets.

Likewise, the Kongo word Bambenga is used in Congo.

It is also the base for a creole used throughout the region: Kituba also called Kikongo de L ' état or Kikongo ya Leta (" Kongo of the state " in French or Kongo ), Kituba and Monokituba ( also Munukituba ).

In spite of the spelling problem, virtually all writers, both Kikongo speaking and Portuguese, including the kings of Kongo themselves, used the term in regular correspondence.

They also used the Kongo to weaken the neighbour realm of Ndongo, where Queen Nzinga put a fierce but eventually doomed resistance to Portuguese and Jagga ambitions.

In the sixteenth century, when the Kingdom of Kongo was converted to Christianity, ukisi ( a substance having characteristics of nkisi ) was used to translate " holy " in the Kikongo Catechism of 1624.

After Kongo leaves and Sanzoh ends up being taken away to a neighboring mountain-to be used as a meal-Sanzoh expresses a level of regret towards his previous sayings to Kongo.

Nata quickly puts Kongo to shame by easily defeating him without effectively transforming his standard weapon-( a skill used by the high-ranking warriors in heaven, such as Refang ).

Kongo then used his transformation technique to look exactly like Lao Tzu, in which he went up to the immortal pill producing machine and made it spout out a handful of them, in which Kongo kept continuously eating.

When Kongo is later defeated by Prince Nata, Fanya attempts to stop Kongo from leaving Flower Fruit Mountain, in which Kongo tells her he will be gone for about 100 days, which makes Fanya full of sadness.

It may also refer to Afonso II of Kongo.

* Afonso I of Kongo ( c. 1456 – 1542 or 1543 ), king of Kingdom of Kongo in west central Africa

The Kingdom of Kongo was a powerful kingdom that existed from the 14th to the 18th century.

Some notable pre-colonial states and societies in Africa include the Nok culture, Mali Empire, Ashanti Empire, Kingdom of Mapungubwe, Kingdom of Sine, Kingdom of Saloum, Kingdom of Baol, Kingdom of Zimbabwe, Kingdom of Kongo, Ancient Carthage, Numidia, Mauretania, the Aksumite Empire, the Ajuuraan State and the Adal Sultanate.

By the 15th century CE, the farming Bakongo people ( ba being the plural prefix ) were unified as the Kingdom of Kongo under a ruler called the manikongo, residing in the fertile Pool Malebo area on the lower Congo River.

About 1568 to 1569, the Jaga invaded Kongo, laying waste to the kingdom and forcing the manikongo into exile.

During the latter part of the 1660s, the Portuguese tried to gain control of Kongo.

Kongo gained captives from the Kingdom of Ndongo in wars of conquest.

The kingdom was not as welcoming as Kongo ; it viewed the Portuguese with great suspicion and as an enemy.

There are many families or " nanchons " ( nations ) of Loa-Rada ( also Radha ), Petro ( also Pethro, Petwo ), Nago, Kongo and Ghede ( also Guede, or Gede ) to name but a few.

* 1491 – Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.

Gregersen ( 1972 ) proposed that Niger – Congo and Nilo-Saharan be united into a larger phylum which he termed Kongo – Saharan.

* 1665 – Battle of Ambuila, in which Portuguese forces defeat the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitated king Antonio I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nkanga.

The main Bantu tribe living in the region were the Kongo, also known as Bakongo, who established mostly weak and unstable kingdoms along the mouth, north and south of the Congo River.

The capital of this Kongolese kingdom, Mbanza Kongo, later baptized as São Salvador by the Portuguese, is a town in northern Angola near the border with the DRC.

Ruling over nearby tributary states often by appointing sons of the Kongo kings to head these states.

According to oral traditions it was established in around 1400 when King Lukena Lua Nimi conquered the kingdom of Kabunga and established Mbanza Kongo as its capital.

In 1482 – 1483, Captain Diogo Cão, sailing southwards on uncharted Congo River, discovered the mouth of the river, and became the first European to encounter the Kingdom of Kongo.

In theory both the kings of Portugal and Kongo were considered equals exchanging letters as such.

Kongo at some point even established diplomatic relations with the Vatican, with the Pope appointing a local as bishop for the region.

As the Portuguese's demand for black slaves grew, the pressure on the Kongo kings increased.

With the Kongo king Afonso I complaining in 1526 to his Portuguese counterpart, John III, bitterly of the damage done to his kingdom by this trade, which was depopulating whole areas and leading to constant wars with his neighbors.

Baptised around 1684 as Dona Béatrice, Kimpa Vita was raised Catholic and being very pious she became a nun seeing visions of St. Anthony of Padua ordering her to restore the kingdom of Kongo to its former glory.

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In the autumn of 1867 he accepted a $ 40 per week contract, nominally as a clerk, but really to play professionally for the Chicago Excelsiors, not an uncommon arrangement used to circumvent the rules of the time, which forbade the hiring of professional players.

This revision modified the traditional psalm scheme so that, while all 150 psalms were used in the course of the week, these were said without repetition.

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The Marathi language describes a week as Athavada, which means group of eight days and nine nights, though nowadays a seven day week is accepted and used according the Roman calendar.