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Stanleyville

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Stanleyville, Congo (Kinshasa): see Kisangani Kisangani , formerly Stanleyville, city (1996 est. pop. 500,000), capital of Orientale province, N central Congo (Kinshasa), a port on the Congo River.
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Kisangani

 formerly (until 1966) Stanleyville

City (pop., 1994 est.: 417,517), northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The nation's major inland port after Kinshasa, it is located on the Congo River, below Boyoma Falls. The city was founded in 1883 by Europeans and was known first as Falls Station and then as Stanleyville (for Henry Morton Stanley). It has been the major centre of the northern Congo since the late 1800s. It is the seat of the University of Kisangani (1963) and other institutions of higher education.


Stanleyville 

until 1966 the name of the city of Kisangani in the Republic of Zaire.



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Their role--and only appearance--in The Mission Song is even more insignificant although it affords Bruno the chance to joke: "I was born, to be precise, behind the locked doors of a Carmelite convent in the town of Kisangani, or Stanleyville as was, being delivered by nuns who have vowed to keep their mouths shut, which to anybody but me sounds funny, surreal or plain invented.
With help from the US and Belgium, he succeeded in putting down the Soviet-supported Stanleyville rebellion, and he brought some stability to the Congolese political system.
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