The
Manikongo or
MweneKongo was the title of the rulers of the
Kingdom of Kongo, a kingdom that existed from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries and consisted of land in present-day
Angola and the
Democratic Republic of Congo. The Manikongo's seat of power was
M'banza-Kongo, (also
São Salvador in 1570–1975) the present-day capital of
Zaire Province in Angola, from where he would appoint governors for the provinces in the Kingdom and receive tribute from neighbouring subjects.