Katanga TV Tower
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Katanga may refer to:


Political entities

*Katanga Province, a former province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo *State of Katanga, a breakaway state which existed from 1960 to 1963 **Katanga Crisis or "Congo Crisis", a period of turmoil in the First Republic of the Congo from 1960 to 1965 *Haut-Katanga Province, a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, created in 2015 *Katanga insurgency, an ongoing rebellion by a number of rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo *Katanga Slum, a settlement in central Uganda *History of Katanga, details of the region from early times, under Luba kingdom, Belgian rule, independent Congo


Places

*Katanga, Dominican Republic, a section of Los Mina, founded by maroons from the Congo who fled French rule *Katanga Plateau, a plateau in the Democratic Republic of the Congo *Garenganze or ''Katanga'' in Central Africa, the home of the pre-colonial Yeke Kingdom of Msiri *Katanga River, a river in Russia


People

*Germain Katanga (born 1978), a Congolese militia leader accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court *Simon Katanga, a fictional character in the film ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''


Other uses

*1817 Katanga, a main-belt asteroid *Luba-Katanga language, a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo


See also

*Khatanga (disambiguation) *Katana (disambiguation) {{disambiguation, geo, surname