Luangwa

Luangwa is a town in Zambia at the confluence of the Luangwa and Zambezi rivers and the headquarters of a district of the same name in Lusaka Province. It was called Feira until 1964. Feira was probably the first European settlement in Zambia: the Portuguese settled across the Luangwa at Zumbo in Mozambique in the early eighteenth century, and by 1720 some had settled in Feira. The town was abandoned by 1856, when David Livingstone found it completely ruined, and was resettled in 1887 by John Harrison Clark, who lived there until 1895. After independence the name was changed to Luangwa, although Feira was revived in 1973 for the parliamentary constituency covering the town. Only one road reaches it, joining the Great East Road about 100 kilometres north, and there are no bridges over the Luangwa or Zambezi nearby.