See Also: Luba-Lunda states(encyclopedia)
Luba(dictionary)
Luba(encyclopedia)
Lunda Sul(tourism)
Lunda(dictionary)
Lunda Sul hotels(tourism)
Lunda Norte(tourism)
Lunda Norte hotels(tourism)
STATES(law)
States Air(tourism)

epoch (sh) and Luba-Lunda states (sh)


epoch (sh)




Unit of geologic time during which a rock series is deposited.

It is a subdivision of a geologic period. Additional distinctions can be made by adding relative time terms, such as early, middle, and late. The use of the term is usually restricted to divisions of the Tertiary and Quaternary periods.


Luba-Lunda states (sh)




Complex of states that flourished in Central Africa in the 16th-19th centuries.

In the late 15th century a small group of ivory hunters founded a state around which a number of satellites proliferated, spreading by the 17th century into the southern Congo Basin and what are now western Angola, and Zambia. The northeastern portion was inhabited by the Luba; the southwestern portion by the Lunda. These groups traded slaves and ivory to the Portuguese for cloth and Other goods. In the 18th century migrants founded Kazembe farther southeast; it flourished until late in the 19th century, when it was colonized by the British.