Ngola (title)
Appearance
The Ngola was the title of the king of the Kingdom of Ndongo which existed from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century in what is now north-west Angola.[1] The full title was "Ngola a Kiluanje", which is often shortened to simply "Ngola", hence the name of the modern country. One queen, Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, held the title of Ndongo in the kingdom's history.[2]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Mark R. Lipschutz; R. Kent Rasmussen (1989). Dictionary of African Historical Biography. University of California Press. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-520-06611-3.
- ↑ Thériault, Anne (2019-10-03). "Queens of Infamy: Njinga". Longreads. Retrieved 2026-01-19.