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Elisabethville

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Elisabethville, Congo (Kinshasa): see Lubumbashi Lubumbashi , city (1984 pop. 564,830), capital of Katanga province, SE Congo (Kinshasa), near the border with Zambia. The second largest city of the country, it is a commercial and industrial center.
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Lubumbashi

 formerly (until 1966) Elisabethville

City (pop., 1994 est.: 851,381), Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was established by Belgian colonists in 1910 near the border with Zambia and grew to become the centre of one of the world's largest copper mining and smelting operations. It was the centre of Katanga province's secession movement in the early 1960s.
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Other assignments included Consul to Elisabethville in the Belgian Congo as Chief Diplomat, representing the U.
FUNERAL SERVICES AND MEMORIALS by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
Elisabethville in the centre of Birtley, Gateshead, was home to 4,000 Belgians during the First World War.
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In the wake of the attack, a cease-fire was signed, but the duplicitous UN broke the agreement, attacking Katanga's capital of Elisabethville.
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