- LOO-buum-BASH-ee, US: /ˌluːbuːmˈbɑːʃi/ LOO-boom-BAH-shee;
former French:
Élisabethville [elizabɛtvil];
former Flemish:
Elisabethstad [eːˈlisaːbɛtstɑt] ) is...
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named Elisabethville. SS
Elisabethville (1910),
torpedoed and sunk in 1917 SS
Elisabethville (1921), s****ped in 1960 See also MV
Elisabethville, built...
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Katanga was one of the four
large provinces created in the
Belgian Congo in 1914. It was one of the
eleven provinces of the
Democratic Republic of the...
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interned by
order of the
governor in 1940. Some
Jewish merchants in
Élisabethville had
swastikas graffitied on
their stores. The
demands of the colonial...
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Gaston Eyskens, for help. When the
newly appointed commander of the
Élisabethville military garrison arrived in the city,
Katangese authorities immediately...
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Lubumbashi International Airport was
founded in
colonial times as the
Elisabethville Airport. It was also
known as
Luano Airport. This
airport pla**** a high-profile...
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utilised for
another seven months,
until Conor Cruise O'Brien was sent to
Elisabethville as the
Special Representative for UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld...
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infrastructure (such as the rail
lines between Matadi and Léopoldville and
Elisabethville and Port Francqui). From 1920 to 1932, 2,450 km of
railroads were constructed...
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which covered two provinces. The 1st
groupement had its
headquarters at
Elisabethville in
Katanga Province,
according to Louis-Francois Vanderstraeten. The...
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Élisabethville and
fighting broke out.
After attempts to
reach a
ceasefire failed, UN
troops launched Operation Grandslam and
occupied Élisabethville...
