The profits were huge: in 1810 a slave purchased in Luanda for 70,000 réis was sold in the District of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, for up to 240,000 réis.
He participated in the Cuban contingent sent by his government to the Angolan Civil War, and although he did not fight on the front line, he lost an eye in an accident in Luanda.
In the latter years of the decade, he had spells in Romania and Angola, being league champion in the latter country with Grupo Desportivo Interclube, the second time in the Luanda club's history.
After four months' imprisonment he was transported to Luanda, the Portuguese settlement in Angola.
Aníbal da Fonseca Paciência (born 11 May 1915 in Luanda - deceased) was a Portuguese footballer, who played as a midfielder.
António Manuel Viana Mendonça (born 9 October 1982 in Luanda) is an Angolan footballer who plays for Santos Futebol Clube de Angola on loan from C.D. Primeiro de Agosto as a right winger.
Maria da Assunção de Oliveira Cristas Machado da Graça (born Luanda, Portuguese Angola, September 28, 1974) is a Portuguese lawyer, professor and conservative politician of the Democratic and Social Centre - People's Party.
Belas is one of the seven municipalities that make up the province of Luanda, as per the new administrative division of the province (the others being, Luanda, Cazenga, Cacuaco, Viana, Icolo e Bengo and Quiçama).
In this sense, and after some time, formed a club whose members were young Cazenga and Palanca, who joined forces and started making games in the friendly province of Luanda.
Carlos Alberto Bastos Parente (born 8 April 1961 in Luanda, Angola) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a central midfielder.
Eddy's father, Domingo Pascual, was born in Luanda (Angola), while his mother, Elnara Israfilova, comes from Azerbaijan.
He was left out of Zambia’s CAN 1986 squad but made a comeback in December 1986 when he captained the team to a 1-0 win over Angola to lift the MPLA trophy in Luanda.
Filipe Manuel Esteves Ramos (born 21 April 1970 in Luanda, Angola), known as simply Filipe, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a midfielder, and a current coach.
The peoples later called "Ganguela" have been known to the Portuguese since the 17th century, when they became involved in the commercial activities developed by the colonial bridgeheads of Luanda and Benguela which existed at that time.
Nélson Gil de Almeida Gomes (born 2 December 1972 in Luanda, Angola), known as Gil, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a forward.
He likewise conquered the Portuguese possessions of Elmina Castle, Saint Thomas, and Luanda, Angola, on the west coast of Africa.
In 2007, after having devoted many years to Grupo Capoeira Brasil, he founded Grupo Capoeira Luanda.
And then he moved on to BCI-Banco de Comércio e Indústria in Luanda at the department of International Banking and Trade Room as trader with the role of Analyzing the Angolan economy, Reporting the daily banking transaction (Excel sheet), management of the foreign currency in the correspondent banks, money transferring worldwide and permanent contacts with BCI’s bank correspondents.
Joaquim Alberto Silva, aka Quinzinho (born 4 March 1974 in Luanda), is an Angolan retired footballer who played as a striker.
Joaquim António Dinis (born 1 December 1947, Luanda) is a former Angolan-Portuguese footballer.
Johnson Monteiro Pinto Macaba (born November 23, 1978 in Luanda), or simply Johnson Macaba, is an Angolan football striker.
Mabiná has played for Atlético Petróleos Luanda since the start of the 2006 Girabola season, although he was in their youth team for a number of years.
Born in Luanda, Lucas João moved to Portugal in his teens, starting playing football with amateurs Beira Mar Atlético Clube Almada.
Luís Manuel Ferreira Delgado, better known as Delgado (born 1 November 1979 in Luanda, Angola), is an Angolan football left defender.
Garcia is a forward who was born in Luanda and made his debut in professional football, being part of the Racing Genk squad in the 2003-04 season.
João Victor Saraiva (born January 22, 1977 in Luanda, Angola), better known as Madjer, is a Portuguese beach soccer player.
Mantorras did not forget his humble roots: soon after joining Benfica, he turned his thoughts to the less fortunate in his homeland, promising to donate a hefty percentage of his wages to set up a home for street kids in Luanda.
Manuel Alexandre Jamuana, known simply as Jamuana, in an Angolan footballer who plays as a defender for Petro Atlético in Luanda and for the Angola national team.
Marco Ibraim de Sousa Airosa (born 6 August 1984 in Luanda) is an Angolan footballer who plays for AEL Limassol on loan from C.D. Nacional in Portugal, as a right defender.
Mário Damião Hipólito (born June 1, 1985 in Luanda) is an Angolan football goalkeeper, who plays for Interclube in the Girabola.
Mfulupinga Nlandu Victor was killed on 2 July 2004 , a Friday, in Luanda, hours after attending a meeting of the Council of the Republic, organ who was a member of a group of elements hitherto unknown.
Marcos Hermenegildo Joaquim Henriques (born 27 May 1981 in Luanda), better known as Miloy, is an Angolan football midfielder, who plays for Santos de Angola in the Girabola.
Norberto Mauro da Costa Mulenessa known as Maurito (born June 24, 1981 in Luanda) is an Angolan football striker and winger currently playing for Minangkabau F.C. in Liga Primer Indonesia and the Angola national football team.
Born in Luanda, Paulão arrived in Portugal in 1994, where he would spend the following eight years of his career, joining Vitória de Setúbal from Estrela Clube Primeiro de Maio.
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Subsequently, Paulão played four years in the second division with Sporting de Espinho, after which he returned to his homeland to play with Atlético Petróleos Luanda and Atlético Sport Aviação, retiring in 2004 at the age of nearly 35.
Paulo Sérgio Braga Madeira (born 6 September 1970 in Luanda, Angola) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a central defender.
The movie Ricardo Rangel – Hot Iron, the director Licinio de Azevedo is a film designed the Instituto Camões in Luanda as part of the cycle CPLP Film Festival which takes place in the Angolan capital of the 10th day September 16, 2009.
Ricardo Talu (born July 21, 1993 in Luanda, Angola) is a Dutch footballer who plays for Eredivisie club PEC Zwolle.
He was tragically killed in 1994 while on location in Angola filming the Luanda Zoo Rescue Operation when he was attacked by an escaped Bengal tiger.
André "Titi" Buengo (born 11 February 1980 in Luanda, Angola) is an Angolan football striker who plays for Penang.
Because of recent internal migration there are now also large communities in Luanda and its surrounding province, as well as in Lubango.
Valdemar António Almeida (born 9 March 1992 in Luanda) aka Pana, is a Angolan footballer who plays for Marítimo B as a midfielder.
His official debut was in the match against Angolan side Petro Atletico in CAF Champions League 2001 on 12 August in Luanda
Born in Luanda, Angola, Carvalho moved to Portugal as an infant, and joined Sporting Clube de Portugal's youth system at the age of 13.
Paulo Batista Nsimba (born 12 August 1983 in Luanda, Angola), nicknamed Zé Kalanga, is an Angolan football winger who plays for Onze Bravos.
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The 2012 Season of the Supertaça Compal, (3rd edition), took place in Benguela and Luanda, Angola from February 14 to 19, 2012 and was contested by six teams from Angola, Portugal and Mozambique split into two groups, each group playing in a round robin system, the first of each group playing for the title, the second for third place and the third for fifth place.
The new king sent a trusted Capuchin monk, Friar Girolamo of Montesarchio, to make peace with the Portuguese in to Luanda, Angola, in Christmas 1665.
The Soviets, trying to increase their influence in Luanda, began sending busts of Vladimir Lenin, a plane full of brochures with Brezhnev's speech at the February 1976 Party Congress, and two planes full of pamphlets denouncing Mao Zedong, to Angola.
The 5,000 Brazilians registered in Angola live and work in the provinces of Cabinda, Lunda Norte and Malanje as well as in the capital, Luanda.
Because of his father's employment as a petroleum geologist, he grew up in Luanda, Angola; Bangkok, Thailand, Conroe, Texas, and Islamabad, Pakistan.
Cacuaco is one of the seven municipalities that make up the province of Luanda, as per the new administrative division of the province (the others being, Luanda, Belas, Cazenga, Viana, Icolo e Bengo and Quiçama).
The airline provides thrice-weekly services from Luanda to Houston on a Boeing 747-400 (10 First Class, 143 Business Class and 36 Economy Class seats) operated by Atlas Air.
For reasons of purchase, investment and international knowledge among others, there are offices abroad in Lisbon in Portugal, São Paulo in Brazil, Guangzhou in China, Miami in the US and the main office is in the own capital Luanda.
In 2011 Luanda Province was subdivided into seven municipalities, namely, Luanda, Belas, Cacuaco, Cazenga, Icolo e Bengo, Quiçama and Viana.
In 1952, Mota & Companhia was awarded the implementation of the Quatro de Fevereiro Airport near Luanda, the first major public work carried out by the company within this territory at the time still under Portuguese colonial administration.
The Pavilhão do Dream Space is a private-owned sports arena located in Kikuxi, Viana, Luanda.
In November 2011, the Banco Angolano de Investimentos opened a branch office named "Comandante Loy" in their banking school in Luanda barrio Morro Bento, Belas municipality.
In its history, the commandos were formed in Zemba, Angola, after June 25, 1962, in Quibala, Angola, since June 30, 1963, in Namaacha, Mozambique, since February 13, 1964, in Bra, Guinea, since July 23, 1964, in Luanda, Angola, after June 29, 1965, in Lamego, Portugal, since April 12, 1966 and in Montepuez, Mozambique, after October 1, 1969.
In 2012, Angola started plans for a line from Luanda via the Matadi Bridge to the enclave of Cabinda province which necessarily crosses Congo territory, with a junction with Congo's Matadi-Kinshasa Railway.
José Carlos de Sequeira Costa (born 18 July 1929, Luanda, Angola) is a Portuguese pianist who is especially admired for his interpretations of the Romantic repertoire.
SINDACO remained based mainly in the Ovimbundu-dominated cities of Huambo and Lobito, whilst being marginalized in Luanda (where MPLA was monopolizing control over the trade union movement).
South African Airways Flight 228 was a scheduled flight of the Boeing 707-300C Pretoria, registration ZS-EUW, on 20 April 1968 from Johannesburg to Heathrow via Windhoek, Luanda, Las Palmas and Frankfurt.
Portuguese news agency Lusa said the aircraft had taken off from the Angolan capital, Luanda, and was trying to land at M'banza-Kongo in the province of Zaire, which is in northern Angola near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Born Teca Miguel Garcia in Luanda, Titica began her career as a backing dancer with acts such as Noite e Dia, Propria Lixa and Puto Portugues.
Soyo Airport and Mbanza Congo Airport have paved runways and regular flights to Luanda.