Kirundu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kirundu
Kirundu
	Village
	Kirundu
	Coordinates: 0.73333°S 25.53333°E
Country	DR Congo
Province	Tshopo
Territory	Ubundu
Chiefdom	Kirundu
Time zone	UTC+2 (Central Africa Time)
Climate	Af

Kirundu is a settlement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is on the right bank of the Lualaba River, upstream from Ubundu.[1]

In the late nineteenth century the town was capital of a slaving state headed by Kibonge, from the Comoro Islands, who was joined by a young Arab named Said ben Adeb who had been expelled from Nyangwe after his father died.[2] In 1893 the Congo Free State officer Louis Napoléon Chaltin defeated the Swahili/Arab forces at Kirundu and expelled them from the Stanley Falls region.[3]

References

Blaes, X. (October 2008). "Découpage administratif de la République Démocratique du Congo" (PDF). UNOCHA and PNUD. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-18.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
W. G. Clarence-Smith (1989). The Economics of the Indian Ocean slave trade in the nineteenth century. Routledge. p. 149. ISBN 0-7146-3359-3.
Auzias, Dominique; Labourdette, Jean-Paul (2006). Congo: république démocratique. Petit Futé. p. 180. ISBN 2-7469-1412-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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[1] Blaes, X. (October 2008). "Découpage administratif de la République Démocratique du Congo" (PDF). UNOCHA and PNUD. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-18.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

[2] W. G. Clarence-Smith (1989). The Economics of the Indian Ocean slave trade in the nineteenth century. Routledge. p. 149. ISBN 0-7146-3359-3.

[3] Auzias, Dominique; Labourdette, Jean-Paul (2006). Congo: république démocratique. Petit Futé. p. 180. ISBN 2-7469-1412-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)