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Key

Njinga and Ndongo's royal house Portuguese Angola Ngola Hari's Ndongo (Portuguese vassal) Old Matamba Dutch West India Company bond — succession, office, alliance conflict — war, revolt, prosecution

Sources & method

  1. Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba — Wikipedia (Heywood 2017, Thornton 1991): the embassy, accession, Kasa and the nephew, Matamba, Kavanga, Funji, the 1656 peace — source
  2. L. M. Heywood, 'Njinga', Dictionary of African Christian Biography (2020): baptism in Luanda 1622, the letters found in 1646, the Capuchin correspondence, Sousa Chichorro — source
  3. Kingdom of Ndongo — Wikipedia (after Thornton and Heintze): Kabasa, the forts, Vasconcelos and the Imbangala, the 1622 treaty, Hari a Kiluanje and Ngola Hari — source
  4. Kingdom of Matamba — Wikipedia: Kabasa sacked 1618, Mwongo Matamba captured 1631, Njinga a Mona and Kambu's marriage — source
  5. Angolan Wars — Wikipedia (after Cadornega and Heintze): Ambaca 1618, the coronation of 12 October 1626, the flight of May 1629, Kavanga, Kombi, the treaty of 12 October 1656 — source
  6. Hari a Kiluanje — Wikipedia: lord of Pungo Andongo, his death and his brother's coronation — source
  7. Battle of Kavanga (Xila), March 1646 — Wikipedia — source
  8. Battle of Kombi, 1647, and the sieges of Ambaca, Massangano and Muxima — Wikipedia — source
  9. Mukambu of Matamba (Kambu, Dona Bárbara) — Wikipedia: captured 1629 and 1646, released 1656 — source
  10. J. K. Thornton, notes to his translation of Cavazzi, Missione Evangelica, book 2: Njinga a Mona — source
  11. Dutch Loango-Angola — Wikipedia: Jol's capture of Luanda (August 1641) and its recapture (August 1648) — source
  12. List of colonial governors of Angola — Wikipedia — source
Method. The chain of people follows a sourced account of the polity, 1600–1660; every claim the narration makes was checked against the sources above. Borders: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), the c.1600 snapshot, simplified — schematic, the right states in roughly the right places. Territorial changes: modern provinces (Natural Earth) or later snapshots standing in for historical ones. Portraits: each credited with its author, licence and source on the readable page. Relief: Esri World Physical Map. Narration: Azure neural voice.
A narrated polity atlas · 1600–1660

Ndongo and Matamba, 1600–1660

How did Ndongo's royal house lose its homeland to Portugal and win a new kingdom in Matamba?
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