
''This article deals with the former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. For the Angolan province see Zaire Province.'' Zaire (spelled ''Zaïre'' in French language) was the name of the Second Republic of Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1971 and 1997. Although it came into use in 1971, the name Zaire is often still used for the portion of the Congo controlled by Mobutu Sese Seko since 1965. This article addresses this subsequent usage. In 1960 the Belgian Congo gained its independence as the "Republic of the Congo" from Belgium. This was the same as a former French colony, Republic of the Congo, with which it shares a border. In 1966 the Republic of the Congo added ''Democratic'' to become Democratic Republic of the Congo. However, the two countries are commonly distinguished by their capitals: Congo (Kinshasa) (then Congo (Leopoldville)) and Congo (Brazzaville). When General Mobutu Sese Seko came to power in 1965, he embarked on an "authenticity" campaign. The country was thus renamed the Republic of Zaire. This decision was curious, given that the name ''Congo'', which referred both to the river Congo and to the ancient Kongo Empire, was fundamentally "authentic" to pre-colonial African roots, while ''Zaire'' is in fact a Portuguese corruption of another African word, ''Nzere'' ("river", by Nzadi o Nzere, "the river that swallow all the other rivers", another name of the Congo river). General Mobutu became Mobutu Sese Seko and forced all his citizens to adopt African names and many cities were also renamed. Some of the conversions are as follows: * Léopoldville became Kinshasa * Stanleyville became Kisangani * Elisabethville became Lubumbashi * Jadotville became Likasi * Albertville became Kalemie Additionally, the zaïre was introduced to replace the franc as the new national currency. 100 makuta (singular likuta) equaled one zaïre. After Laurent-Desire Kabila overthrew Mobutu in 1997, the country reverted to the name Democratic Republic of the Congo. ===Standards and abbreviations=== In computing, Zaire's top level domain was ".zr". [http://www.iana.org/reports/zr-report-20jun01.htm] ---- Zaire is also the name of a province of Angola; see Zaire Province. Zaire also referred to the Zaire River, another name for the Congo River, when the country was called Zaire. ---- Zaire, written in 1732, is also a tragedy by the French playwright/philosopher/poet Voltaire. It is ranked among the ten or twelve best plays of the entire French classical school. History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Former countries
====move page name from Zaire → Zaïre==== Simple misspelling. Zaire is incorrect. User:Nickshanks 15:11, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) (copied from Wikipedia:Requested moves by User:Philip Baird Shearer) Oh no it isn't. Google about 32,500 English pages for Zaïre, 2,350,000 English pages for Zaire. Also see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) -- User:Philip Baird Shearer 16:04, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) :What does that prove? That people aren't sure how to get the ï character on their keyboards? - User:Xed.User talk:Xed.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Xed stalk].[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Emailuser&target=Xed mail].WP:Bias 17:42, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) -------- Most English dictionaries e.g. Oxford spell the name Zaire without the accent or umlaut. It is rare in English to have any accents on common place names.--User:BrentS 05:30, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Page move discussion == (from Wikipedia:Requested moves) ====Zaire → Zaïre==== Simple misspelling. Zaire is incorrect. User:Nickshanks 15:11, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) * Oppose Oh no it isn't. Google about 32,500 English pages for Zaïre, 2,350,000 English pages for Zaire User:Philip Baird Shearer 15:21, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC). * Oppose Most people wouldn't use the diaeresis. User:Jguk 16:04, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) * Oppose Use most common name in the English language. User:Bkonrad≠User talk:Bkonrad 16:33, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC) * Oppose. ''Zaire'' is the English name, and that's all there is to it. User:Austin Hair (User talk:Austin Hair&Special:emailuser/Austin Hair) 16:54, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC) * Support. Google results are irrelevant, and just show many people are unsure how to get the ï character on their keyboard. The diacritic issue is also irrelevant, as the article on Côte d'Ivoire shows. Zaire should redirerct to Zaïre, not the other way around.- User:Xed.User talk:Xed.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Xed stalk].[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Emailuser&target=Xed mail].WP:Bias 17:53, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) * Support for Xed's reasons. -- User:Netoholic User talk:Netoholic 18:51, 2004 Dec 31 (UTC) * Oppose. User:Raul654 19:11, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC) *Oppose. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names). User:Niteowlneils 03:24, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC) *Oppose. I would never think of spelling Zaire with an umlaut, but that's not the issue. If the article was already at Zaïre I would oppose a move to Zaire; on the other hand there is no reason to move it the other way. Leave it be. --User:Tony Sidaway|User talk:Tony Sidaway 03:42, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC) *err, yup. Oppose. User:SECProto 19:02, Jan 1, 2005 (UTC) * Support. Most people don't know or care how to type the diaeresis, but Wikipedia should use the correct orthography. "Zaïre" is ''not spelled differently'', it's just ''more precisely entered''. And not that Google searches prove anything, but how did you get those results? Google treats ''i'' and ''ï'' as the same letter (which it is). Searching English-language pages, I get[http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Zaire&num=10&hl=en&c2coff=1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=lang_en&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=off about 2,180,000 results for Zaire] and[http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Zaïre&num=10&hl=en&c2coff=1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=lang_en&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=off 2,170,000 for Zaïre]. ''—User:Mzajac 10:01, 2005 Jan 2 (UTC)'' :You are not using Google with the defaults used in a counry where the primary language is English: :*about 32,600 English pages for Zaïre. :*about 2,070,000 English pages for Zaire :Google uses different defaults in diffrent countries for example in Germany searches wrap "u" "ü" and "ue" into one, but not in English speaking countries where they are by default 3 diffrent things --User:Philip Baird Shearer 10:54, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC) :: That doesn't sound right. I'm in Canada, and get the same results whether searching with Google.com or Google.ca (English version). ''—User:Mzajac 22:31, 2005 Jan 4 (UTC)'' :::The diaeresis is properly used for Zaïre in French (remember it used to be the Belgian Congo). My guess is that as you're searching from a country that has French as an official language, you're inadvertently skewing the results, User:Jguk 22:53, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC) ::::http://www.google.com.au http://www.google.co.nz http://www.google.co.uk http://www.google.co.za all work the same way. http://www.google.ie http://www.google.ca seem to be set up as bylingual (one of which uses diaeresis) Germany http://www.google.de returns similar results to ca and ie. User:Philip Baird Shearer 23:14, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC) ::: Google.com functions identically to Google.ca for connections originating in Canada; the same goes for other localized versions. You can verify this by viewing your search preferences. User:Austin Hair (User talk:Austin Hair&Special:emailuser/Austin Hair) 19:38, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC) * Oppose. Even if Zaïre can be shown to be more correct (which I'm not convinced about), Wikipedia convention (usually) ignores this in favour of common usage. (Which I'm not convinced about either, for proper names, but anyway, that's the apparently-now-set-in-stone convention.) User:Rd232 10:44, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC) * Oppose. I would, obviously, support the move if Zaïre was the English name, but it doesn't seem to be the case - both [http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49chang.htm UN] and [http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html ISO] know it under the name of Zaire. Their list has Åland Islands, Côte d'Ivoire, and Réunion, so it isn't just the fault of stripping diacritics. -- User:Naive cynic 21:29, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC) * Oppose. Most English dictionaries e.g. Oxford spell the name Zaire without the accent or diaeresis. It is rare in English to have any accents on ''common'' place names. Perhaps others could check other dictionaries in the UK and USA. Zaire with the diaeresis is correct in French.--User:BrentS 00:35, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC) * Oppose. Zaire is the common spelling. --User:Auximines 12:31, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC) * Support - Common but incorrect does not belong in an encyclopaedia. User:Guettarda 22:20, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC) * Oppose. Zaire is correct in English language use. User:Jonathunder 22:31, 2005 Jan 9 (UTC) * Oppose. There are no umlauts in English. User:Jayjg | User_talk:Jayjg 22:54, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC) *: It's not an umlaut, it's diaeresis, and it is used in English, although rarely. ''—User:Mzajac 18:15, 2005 Jan 11 (UTC)'' *Support. English makes many exceptions for non-domestic words, which is one of its strengths; you do not see "samurais" or "erratums," for example. To think otherwise is to be naïve. User:Almafeta 03:13, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC) *: This is a matter of orthography, not the formation of irregular plurals; if a word is common enough not to be italicized in running text, it loses the accents. English ditched the diaereses long ago, and anyway, your argument doesn't apply to proper names. User:Austin Hair (User talk:Austin Hair&Special:emailuser/Austin Hair) 07:33, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC) *:: English hasn't "ditched" the diaeresis, even though it's only rarely used for ''naïve'', ''Chloë'', ''coöperation'', etc. ''—User:Mzajac 18:15, 2005 Jan 11 (UTC)'' *: Comment: The claim ''you do not see "samurais" or erratums"'' is simply false. Both are recognised plural forms of their respective root words. As I said earlier, if this was an article at Zaïre I'd probably vote to keep it there. But moving should be avoided without good reason. --User:Tony Sidaway|User talk:Tony Sidaway 11:50, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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Zaire_Province
Zaire_River
Zaire
''This article deals with the former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. For the Angolan province see Zaire Province.'' Zaire (spelled ''Zaïre'' in French language) was the name of the Second Republic of Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1971 and 1997. Although it came into use in 1971, the name Zaire is often still used for the portion of the Congo controlled by Mobutu Sese Seko since 1965. This article addresses this subsequent usage. In 1960 the Belgian Congo gained its independence as the "Republic of the Congo" from Belgium. This was the same as a former French colony, Republic of the Congo, with which it shares a border. In 1966 the Republic of the Congo added ''Democratic'' to become Democratic Republic of the Congo. However, the two countries are commonly distinguished by their capitals: Congo (Kinshasa) (then Congo (Leopoldville)) and Congo (Brazzaville). When General Mobutu Sese Seko came to power in 1965, he embarked on an "authenticity" campaign. The country was thus renamed the Republic of Zaire. This decision was curious, given that the name ''Congo'', which referred both to the river Congo and to the ancient Kongo Empire, was fundamentally "authentic" to pre-colonial African roots, while ''Zaire'' is in fact a Portuguese corruption of another African word, ''Nzere'' ("river", by Nzadi o Nzere, "the river that swallow all the other rivers", another name of the Congo river). General Mobutu became Mobutu Sese Seko and forced all his citizens to adopt African names and many cities were also renamed. Some of the conversions are as follows: * Léopoldville became Kinshasa * Stanleyville became Kisangani * Elisabethville became Lubumbashi * Jadotville became Likasi * Albertville became Kalemie Additionally, the zaïre was introduced to replace the franc as the new national currency. 100 makuta (singular likuta) equaled one zaïre. After Laurent-Desire Kabila overthrew Mobutu in 1997, the country reverted to the name Democratic Republic of the Congo. ===Standards and abbreviations=== In computing, Zaire's top level domain was ".zr". [http://www.iana.org/reports/zr-report-20jun01.htm] ---- Zaire is also the name of a province of Angola; see Zaire Province. Zaire also referred to the Zaire River, another name for the Congo River, when the country was called Zaire. ---- Zaire, written in 1732, is also a tragedy by the French playwright/philosopher/poet Voltaire. It is ranked among the ten or twelve best plays of the entire French classical school. History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Former countries
Zaire
====move page name from Zaire → Zaïre==== Simple misspelling. Zaire is incorrect. User:Nickshanks 15:11, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) (copied from Wikipedia:Requested moves by User:Philip Baird Shearer) Oh no it isn't. Google about 32,500 English pages for Zaïre, 2,350,000 English pages for Zaire. Also see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) -- User:Philip Baird Shearer 16:04, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) :What does that prove? That people aren't sure how to get the ï character on their keyboards? - User:Xed.User talk:Xed.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Xed stalk].[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Emailuser&target=Xed mail].WP:Bias 17:42, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) -------- Most English dictionaries e.g. Oxford spell the name Zaire without the accent or umlaut. It is rare in English to have any accents on common place names.--User:BrentS 05:30, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Page move discussion == (from Wikipedia:Requested moves) ====Zaire → Zaïre==== Simple misspelling. Zaire is incorrect. User:Nickshanks 15:11, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) * Oppose Oh no it isn't. Google about 32,500 English pages for Zaïre, 2,350,000 English pages for Zaire User:Philip Baird Shearer 15:21, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC). * Oppose Most people wouldn't use the diaeresis. User:Jguk 16:04, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) * Oppose Use most common name in the English language. User:Bkonrad≠User talk:Bkonrad 16:33, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC) * Oppose. ''Zaire'' is the English name, and that's all there is to it. User:Austin Hair (User talk:Austin Hair&Special:emailuser/Austin Hair) 16:54, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC) * Support. Google results are irrelevant, and just show many people are unsure how to get the ï character on their keyboard. The diacritic issue is also irrelevant, as the article on Côte d'Ivoire shows. Zaire should redirerct to Zaïre, not the other way around.- User:Xed.User talk:Xed.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Xed stalk].[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Emailuser&target=Xed mail].WP:Bias 17:53, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) * Support for Xed's reasons. -- User:Netoholic User talk:Netoholic 18:51, 2004 Dec 31 (UTC) * Oppose. User:Raul654 19:11, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC) *Oppose. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names). User:Niteowlneils 03:24, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC) *Oppose. I would never think of spelling Zaire with an umlaut, but that's not the issue. If the article was already at Zaïre I would oppose a move to Zaire; on the other hand there is no reason to move it the other way. Leave it be. --User:Tony Sidaway|User talk:Tony Sidaway 03:42, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC) *err, yup. Oppose. User:SECProto 19:02, Jan 1, 2005 (UTC) * Support. Most people don't know or care how to type the diaeresis, but Wikipedia should use the correct orthography. "Zaïre" is ''not spelled differently'', it's just ''more precisely entered''. And not that Google searches prove anything, but how did you get those results? Google treats ''i'' and ''ï'' as the same letter (which it is). Searching English-language pages, I get[http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Zaire&num=10&hl=en&c2coff=1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=lang_en&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=off about 2,180,000 results for Zaire] and[http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Zaïre&num=10&hl=en&c2coff=1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=lang_en&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=off 2,170,000 for Zaïre]. ''—User:Mzajac 10:01, 2005 Jan 2 (UTC)'' :You are not using Google with the defaults used in a counry where the primary language is English: :*about 32,600 English pages for Zaïre. :*about 2,070,000 English pages for Zaire :Google uses different defaults in diffrent countries for example in Germany searches wrap "u" "ü" and "ue" into one, but not in English speaking countries where they are by default 3 diffrent things --User:Philip Baird Shearer 10:54, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC) :: That doesn't sound right. I'm in Canada, and get the same results whether searching with Google.com or Google.ca (English version). ''—User:Mzajac 22:31, 2005 Jan 4 (UTC)'' :::The diaeresis is properly used for Zaïre in French (remember it used to be the Belgian Congo). My guess is that as you're searching from a country that has French as an official language, you're inadvertently skewing the results, User:Jguk 22:53, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC) ::::http://www.google.com.au http://www.google.co.nz http://www.google.co.uk http://www.google.co.za all work the same way. http://www.google.ie http://www.google.ca seem to be set up as bylingual (one of which uses diaeresis) Germany http://www.google.de returns similar results to ca and ie. User:Philip Baird Shearer 23:14, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC) ::: Google.com functions identically to Google.ca for connections originating in Canada; the same goes for other localized versions. You can verify this by viewing your search preferences. User:Austin Hair (User talk:Austin Hair&Special:emailuser/Austin Hair) 19:38, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC) * Oppose. Even if Zaïre can be shown to be more correct (which I'm not convinced about), Wikipedia convention (usually) ignores this in favour of common usage. (Which I'm not convinced about either, for proper names, but anyway, that's the apparently-now-set-in-stone convention.) User:Rd232 10:44, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC) * Oppose. I would, obviously, support the move if Zaïre was the English name, but it doesn't seem to be the case - both [http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49chang.htm UN] and [http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html ISO] know it under the name of Zaire. Their list has Åland Islands, Côte d'Ivoire, and Réunion, so it isn't just the fault of stripping diacritics. -- User:Naive cynic 21:29, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC) * Oppose. Most English dictionaries e.g. Oxford spell the name Zaire without the accent or diaeresis. It is rare in English to have any accents on ''common'' place names. Perhaps others could check other dictionaries in the UK and USA. Zaire with the diaeresis is correct in French.--User:BrentS 00:35, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC) * Oppose. Zaire is the common spelling. --User:Auximines 12:31, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC) * Support - Common but incorrect does not belong in an encyclopaedia. User:Guettarda 22:20, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC) * Oppose. Zaire is correct in English language use. User:Jonathunder 22:31, 2005 Jan 9 (UTC) * Oppose. There are no umlauts in English. User:Jayjg | User_talk:Jayjg 22:54, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC) *: It's not an umlaut, it's diaeresis, and it is used in English, although rarely. ''—User:Mzajac 18:15, 2005 Jan 11 (UTC)'' *Support. English makes many exceptions for non-domestic words, which is one of its strengths; you do not see "samurais" or "erratums," for example. To think otherwise is to be naïve. User:Almafeta 03:13, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC) *: This is a matter of orthography, not the formation of irregular plurals; if a word is common enough not to be italicized in running text, it loses the accents. English ditched the diaereses long ago, and anyway, your argument doesn't apply to proper names. User:Austin Hair (User talk:Austin Hair&Special:emailuser/Austin Hair) 07:33, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC) *:: English hasn't "ditched" the diaeresis, even though it's only rarely used for ''naïve'', ''Chloë'', ''coöperation'', etc. ''—User:Mzajac 18:15, 2005 Jan 11 (UTC)'' *: Comment: The claim ''you do not see "samurais" or erratums"'' is simply false. Both are recognised plural forms of their respective root words. As I said earlier, if this was an article at Zaïre I'd probably vote to keep it there. But moving should be avoided without good reason. --User:Tony Sidaway|User talk:Tony Sidaway 11:50, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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#REDIRECT Zaire
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