Angola Independence Day
Angola Independence Day is held on November 11. Celebrates the independence of Angola from Portugal in 1975. This event in the second decade of the month November is annual. 
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The name Angola comes from the word Ngola which was an iron object that symbolised kingship among the Mbundu and Lunda people. After 1 000 CE several larger centralised states began to form in different parts of present-day Angola.
Portugal granted Angola independence on November 11, 1975, at a time when multiple Angolan nationalist forces were fighting among themselves to establish control over the newly liberated state.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Angola Armed Forces Day on October 9
National Festival of Angolan Culture on December 18 (It serves as a point of promotion of cohesion, unity and diversity of the Angolan culture);
Day of the Fallen against the Colonial Repression on January 4
Day of the Armed Struggle or Liberation Movement Day in Angola on February 4 (to commemorate the day in 1961 when Angolan MPLA (People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola) forces assaulted a prison house in Luanda and freed independence leaders who were incarcerated there);
Carnival in Angola on March 4 (The main day of Carnival season is a public holiday in Angola, falling on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday);
Saint Joseph's Day or Father's Day on March 19 (in Andorra, Angola, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Honduras, and Bolivia);
Southern Africa Liberation Day on March 23
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