Elisabethville

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Former name of Lubumbashi (“city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo”).

Word forms

Elisabethville Elizabethville

Etymology

Named by the Belgians in honour of their queen Elisabeth, wife to king Albert I.

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