Definition of Elisabethville

1. Noun. A city in southeastern Congo near the border with Zambia; a copper mining center; former name (until 1966) was Elisabethville.

Exact synonyms: Lubumbashi
Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center
Group relationships: Belgian Congo, Congo, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Zaire

Lexicographical Neighbors of Elisabethville

Elihu Thomson
Elihu Yale
Elijah
Elijah Muhammad
Eliniko
Elinikon
Elinor
Elinor Morton Hoyt Wylie
Elinvar
Eliomys
Eliot
Eliotian
Elis
Elisabeth
Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
Elisabethville
Elise
Elisha
Elisha Graves Otis
Elisheba
Elissa
Elista
Elite Eight
Elixophyllin
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson Gaskell
Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman
Elizabeth Gaskell

Literary usage of Elisabethville

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Education in Africa: A Study of West, South, and Equatorial Africa by the by Thomas Jesse Jones (1922)
"elisabethville Station—The possibilities of mission work in and immediately about elisabethville surpass those in any part of Central Africa. ..."

2. Pioneering in the Congo by John McKendree Springer (1916)
"to elisabethville and christen the infant of a Belgian physician, a Protestant. This was my first visit to elisabethville since 1911. ..."

3. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1921)
"From the railhead he continued by carrier, following the projected railway route from Benguella to elisabethville by way of Cuanza, Mexico, ..."

4. South America, Past and Present by Luis Cincinato Bollo (1919)
"The distance to be covered across continental Africa from Cairo to the Cape is 10000 kms., with the following connecting lines: Cape Town to elisabethville ..."

5. Through the Heart of Africa by Frank Hulme Melland, Edward H. Cholmeley (1912)
"... Lobito Bay line is being pushed on to Katanga to meet the northern extension of the Rhodesia Railways which are already creeping on from elisabethville ..."

6. Journal by General Assembly, Pennsylvania General Assembly. Senate, Pennsylvania (1901)
"Jacob F. Fisher, elisabethville. Delaware County. Jno. M. Broomall, 3rd, Media. Kingsley Montgomery, Chester. Joshua C. Taylor, Chester. ..."

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