Angua Von Überwald
Angua may refer to: *Angua, a gram panchayat of Dantan I Dantan I is a community development block that forms an administrative division in the Kharagpur subdivision of Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History According to some, the name is derived from '' Dandabhukti'', w ...

Dantan I (community Development Block)
Dantan I is a Community development block in India, community development block that forms an administrative division in the Kharagpur subdivision of Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of West Bengal. History According to some, the name is derived from ''Dandabhukti'', which was an ancient territorial unit of Gupta Empire. Dantan, was later a part of Hijli Kingdom. It was a thriving town on the route to the Jagannath Temple, Puri, Jagannath Temple in Puri when Chaitanya Mahaprabhu reportedly passed through here in the 16th century. Dantan is the location of at least three temples from the nineteenth century, the Jagannath Temple, the Shyamaleswar Temple, and the Chandaneswar Temple. All three have been built in the curvilinear ''rekha'' style that is common to temples of Orissa, India, Orissa. Near the town, there are two major tanks, the Bidyadhar and the Sarasankha. The Bidyadhar tank was created by a minister named Bidyadhara of Pr ...
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Kwane A Ngie
Kwane a Ngie, known in British records as Angua or Quan, was a Duala ruler from the Bonambela sublineage who flourished from 1788 to 1790 in Douala, Cameroon. The British slave trade was at its height at this time, and, although a rival ruler from the Bonanjo sublineage named George or Joss reigned simultaneously, British records point to Kwane as the more powerful or respected leader. According to British court records from 1788, when a British trader kidnapped several Duala and threatened to sell them in the West Indies The West Indies is an island subregion of the Americas, surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island country, island countries and 19 dependent territory, dependencies in thr ..., "Quan" was the more aggressive ruler in trying to secure their return by pressuring other British captains. The records of the British ship ''Sarah'' in 1790 indicate that while George received custom from tra ...
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