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Nsi Kwilu is a modernKikongo respelling of "Essiquilu" the term used by the ItalianCapuchin missionary Girolamo da Montesarchio^[1] in 1650 for the territory along theKwilu River nearMatadi in the modern-dayDemocratic Republic of Congo.

Jean Cuvelier determined this spelling, which means, in Kikongo, "the country of Kwilu". According to Montesarchio, it was in Nsi Kwilu that the firstkings of Kongo reigned before they became the rulers of a great kingdom that controlled the northern part of modern-dayAngola in the fifteenth century. It was an old religious centre, with rock engravings dating back to the 6th century.^[2]^: 26

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^Montescarchio, Calogero Piazza, ed.La Prefettura Apostolica del Congo alla' Meta del XVII secolo: la relazione inedita di Girolamo da Montesarchio, noted in John Kelly Thornton, 1998.Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1800 p 79 note 22.
^Thornton, John K., ed. (2020),"The Development of States in West Central Africa to 1540",A History of West Central Africa to 1850, New Approaches to African History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 16–55,ISBN 978-1-107-56593-7, retrieved2024-09-21

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