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Ngoyo (Kingdom)

LC control no.n 00025241
Geographic headingNgoyo (Kingdom)
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Geographic subdivision usageNgoyo (Kingdom)
Variant(s)Ngoy (Kingdom)
Ngoi (Kingdom)
Found inCrown and ritual, c1998: t.p. (Ngoyo) Canadian CIP (Ngoyo (Kingdom)) p. 3 (African kindom of Ngoyo, one of several small, very old kingdoms located along the coast just north of the Congo estuary) p. 4 (immediate neighbors, Loango, Bungu, and Kakongo (not to be confused with Kongo)) p. 311 (Ngoyo is the most common spelling in the literature; other versions are Ngoy and Ngoi)
New Encyclopedia Britannica, c1997: v. 8, p. 668 (Ngoy, former kingdom on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa; now part of of southern Cabinda (an exclave of Angola) and western Zaire; founded ... about the 15th century; disintegrated ... in the 1830's)
Not found inLippencott Colliers Ency. Americana