State · 1975 – 1976
Republic of Cabinda
A state of 1975 – 1976 — one year in sub-Saharan Africa. The atlas records 1 thing within it — wars and battles 1. Its line of rulers holds 2 people. Its own article says it was conquered by forces of the Popular Movement.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- one year
- 1975 – 1976
- Rulers
- 2
- the President
- Within it
- 1
- recorded row
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
How it ended, as its article says
Conquered by forces of the Popular Movement, 1975-11. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.
However, after Angolan independence was declared in November 1975, Cabinda was occupied by the forces of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which had been present in Cabinda since the mid-1960s, sustaining an anti-colonial guerrilla war that was rather more efficient than the…
One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luis Ranque Franque | 1975 – 1975 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Henrique N'zita Tiago | 1975 – 1975 | under a year | ending not on record |
2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1975 – 1975. 0 of 1 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 1.00, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
coat of arms, undatedROCS · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Gabirro 
flag, undatedBandeira proposta da República de Cabinda · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 19991 row · 1 wars and battles
- Cabinda War · war · 1975
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood1 years
stood longer than 3% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per century1.0
had more wars on record per century than 94% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1965 – 1986, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1976, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q2368688 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.