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by the 240 kilometres (150 mi) Kasongo Road (a section of National Road 31 (N31)), but the journey takes two days due to the road's poor state. The City also lies on
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The town was founded around 1850 to 1860. A few years later it became the capital of the newly founded and short-lived
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in the 1890s. A century later, Kasongo and its inhabitants were severely affected by the
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Index

Kasongo (disambiguation)
Territory
Kasongo Territory is located in Democratic Republic of the Congo
4°27′S 26°39′E / 4.450°S 26.650°E / -4.450; 26.650
Country
Democratic Republic of Congo
Province
Maniema
Kiswahili
territory
Maniema
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lualaba River
Luama River
Kasongo Airport
Kindu
National Road 2 (N2)
Roman Catholic Diocese of Kasongo

Sultanate of Utetera
Swahili
Arab
Tippu Tip
Sultanate of Zanzibar
Henry Morton Stanley
Congo Arab war
Batetela rebellion
Second Congo War
Congolian rainforests
Cannibalism in Africa § Congo Basin

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