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Encyclopedia Britannica



ZAIRE

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 951 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: YAK-ZYM
ZAIRE , a name by which the river Congo was formerly known. Zaire is a Portuguese variant of a
Bantu
  word (nzari) meaning river. In the 16th and 17th centuries the powerful native kingdom of Congo possessed both
banks
  of the
lower
  river, and the name of the country was in time given to the river also. Until, however, the last
quarter
  of the 19th
century
  " Zaire " was frequently used to designate the stream. It is so called by
Camoens
  in the Lusiads. Since H. M.
Stanley
 's discoveries " Congo " has become the general name for the river from its mouth to
Stanley
  Falls, despite an effort on the
part
  of Stanley to have the stream re-named Livingstone. (See CONGO, river.)


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