Angola (Overs. Province)

This article is about the specific polity Angola (Overs. Province) and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

If you are looking for the page with the statistics about this polity you can find it here:All Statistics

The Colony of Angola was made an Overseas Province in 1951.

Establishment

October 1951: Designation of Angola as an overseas province.

Chronology

Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation

1. Angolan War of Independence

Was the war of independence of Angola from Portugal.

November 1975: After the Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974 and the overthrow of the corporatist and authoritarian Estado Novo regime in Portugal, the new Portuguese government offered a ceasefire. On November 11, 1975, the last Portuguese troops left Angola unilaterally. The war of independence then turned into a bloody civil war.