Dutch Loango-Angola

Governorate Loango-Angola Loango-Angola
1641–1648
Flag Coat of arms
The city of Luanda by Johannes Vingboons (1665)
Status	Dutch colony
Capital	Fort Aardenburgh
Common languages	Dutch (official) Kongo, Chokwe, Umbundu, Kimbundu, Ngangela, Kwanyama
Religion	Dutch Reformed Traditional African religions
Director
• 1641–1643	Pieter Moorthamer and Cornelis Nieulant
• 1643–1645	Hans Mols
• 1644-1647	Heynderick van Redinckhoven
• 1645–1648	Cornelis Hendrikszoon Ouwman
History
• Capture of Luanda	26 August 1641
• Recapture of Luanda	21 August 1648
Currency	Dutch guilder
Preceded by Succeeded by Portuguese Angola Portuguese Angola
Today part of	Angola Republic of the Congo

Loango-Angola is the name for the possessions of the Dutch West India Company in contemporary Angola and the Republic of the Congo. Notably, the name refers to the colony that was captured from the Portuguese between 1641 and 1648. Due to the distance between Luanda and Elmina, the capital of the Dutch Gold Coast, a separate administration for the southern districts of Africa was established at Luanda during the period of the Dutch occupation.^[1]

After Angola was recaptured by the Portuguese in 1648, Dutch trade with Loango-Angola did not stop, however. From about 1670 onward, the Dutch West India Company acquired slaves from the Loango region on a regular basis, and Dutch free traders continued this practice until after 1730.^[2]