Léopoldville
Britishnoun
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Henri Lopes was born on Sept. 12, 1937, in what was then Léopoldville, later Kinshasa, the capital of what was then the Belgian Congo.
From New York Times
The crew was nervous as the plane approached Leopoldville, now Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
From Washington Post
The crew was nervous as the plane approached Léopoldville, now Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
From Seattle Times
“We are happy to have given the Congo, despite the greatest difficulties, the essential elements for the reinforcement of a country on the road to development,” Baudouin said at the ceremony in the city named after his ancestor, Léopoldville, which is now Kinshasa.
From Washington Post
Dulles cabled the C.I.A. station chief in Leopoldville, now Kinshasa, that Lumumba’s death was “an urgent and prime objective.”
From The New Yorker
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