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View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; View history; General ... Zaire is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:
The surname Story (and its variant spelling Storey) is English, but Old Norse in origin. [1] The name originates from the Old Norse personal epithet “Stóri”, a derivative of “Storr” which means “large” or “big”. It has been established that the root of the name is “Storr”.
The river was known as Zaire during the 16th and 17th centuries; Congo seems to have replaced Zaire gradually in English usage during the 18th century, and Congo is the preferred English name in 19th-century literature, although references to Zahir or Zaire as the name used by the inhabitants remained common. [14]
Zaire, [c] officially the Republic of Zaire, [d] was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 18 May 1997. Located in Central Africa , it was, by area, the third-largest country in Africa after Sudan and Algeria , and the 11th-largest country in the world from 1965 to 1997.
The name was chosen in the early 1970s to avoid being called "Banyarwanda" and being seen as foreigners in what was then Zaire. [6] In 1976, the word "Banyamulenge" first came into wide usage after Gisaro Muhazo, a South Kivutian deputy, began an initiative to reclassify the Banyamulenge of Mwenga, Fizi and Uvira into a single administrative ...
Zara is a feminine given name and a surname.. It is a spelling variant of the Arabic female name Zahra. [1] which means beautiful, radiant, and divine. [2]It is possible that the name has Hebrew origins in the word saraja, translating to sovereign, ruler, or a woman of high rank.
Zaire (name), includes a list of people with the given name or surname; Zaire (currency), the currency of Congo and later Zaire from 1967 to 1997; Zaire, a 1732 play by Voltaire; Zaïre. Revue Congolaise—Congoleesch Tijdschrift, Belgian African studies journal; Zaïre-FPAC, a decentralized Hema militant group
Authenticité, [note 1] sometimes Zairisation or Zairianisation in English, was an official state ideology of the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko that originated in the late 1960s and early 1970s in what was first the Democratic Republic of Congo, later renamed Zaire.