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HISTORY. The first Europeans to arrive in Angola were the Portuguese in 1482, and the first settlers arrived there in 1491. Luanda was founded in 1575. Apart from a brief period of Dutch occupation from 1641 to 1648, Angola remained a Portuguese colony until 11 June 1951, when it became an Overseas Province of Portugal. On 11 Nov. 1975 Angola became fully independent as the People’s Republic of Angola. The People’s Liberation Movement of Angola (MPLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) committed themselves to putting their rival claims to power to a popular vote, but the agreement broke down in battles which left MPLA in control of the capital and the other factions banished to the countryside. In 1990 MPLA and UNITA began peace talks.
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Anuário Estatistico de Angola. Luanda, from 1897
Araujo, A. Correia de, Aspectos do desenvolvimento económico e social de Angola. Lisbon, 1964
Bender, G. J., Angola under the Portuguese: Myth and Reality. London, 1979
Bhagavan, M. R., Angola s Political Economy 1975–1985. Uppsala, 1986
Davidson, B., In the Eye of the Storm. London, 1972
Marcrum, J., The Angolan Revolution. (2 vols.) MIT Press, 1969 and 1978
Somerville, K., Angola: Politics. Economics and Society. London and Boulder, 1986
Wheeler, D. L. and Pélissier, R., Angola. London, 1971
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Hunter, B. (1991). Angola. In: Hunter, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271203_8
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