Vila Robert Williams (now
Caála
Caála is a town and a municipality located 23 km west of the city of Huambo, in the namesake province in Angola. It was known as Vila Robert Williams while Angola was a Portuguese colony, after the famous railroad developer and mining magna ...
) was a town in
Huambo province of
Angola
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, in the then
Portuguese Angola (before 1975). The town of Robert Williams was just west of Nova Lisboa (now
Huambo) and was remarkable for huge outcroppings of
boulder
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s that jutted from the fields just outside the town. In those outcroppings researchers could find pottery shards, primitive metal smelting pits, and other archeological detritus. It is named after the
Robert Williams who founded the Robert Williams and Company.
See also
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Sir Robert Williams
References
Populated places in Cuando Cubango Province
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