State

Kingdom of Ndongo

which preceded Portuguese rule

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1518–1683
Founded
1518
Ended
1683
Capital
Caculo Cabaça

Overview

The Kingdom of Ndongo (formerly known as Angola or Dongo, also Kimbundu: Utuminu ua Ndongo, Utuminu ua Ngola) was an early-modern African state located in the highlands between the Lukala and Kwanza Rivers, in what is now Angola.

The Kingdom of Ndongo is first recorded in the sixteenth century. It was one of multiple vassal states to Kongo, though Ndongo was the most powerful of these with a king called the Ngola.

Little is known of the kingdom in the early sixteenth century. "Angola" was listed among the titles of the King of Kongo in 1535, so it was likely somewhat subordinate to Kongo. Its oral traditions, collected in the late sixteenth century, particularly by the Jesuit Baltasar Barreira, described the founder of the kingdom, Ngola Kiluanje, also known as Ngola Inene, as a migrant from Kongo, chief of a Kimbundu-speaking ethnic group.

Excerpt from Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

All rulers (2)

  1. Ngola Mbande1617–1618
  2. Nzingha Mbande1624–1663

Records (11)

  1. 1579 — Siege of AnzeleSiege
  2. 1579–1604 — First Luso–Ambundu WarWar
  3. 1580 — Cuanza River CampaignCampaign
  4. 1583 — Battle of TalandongoBattle
  5. 1585 — First Battle of the LucalaBattle
  6. 1585 — Battle of CasicolaBattle
  7. 1611–1622 — Second Luso–Ambundu WarWar
  8. 1646 — Battle of KavangaBattle
  9. 1647–1649 — South Atlantic campaignCampaign
  10. 1648 — Recapture of AngolaCampaign
  11. 1671 — Battle of Pungo AndongoBattle

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), HCED (CC0) and Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0); overview excerpted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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