Tributary network · approximate1500 – 1671 · 171 years

Kingdom of Ndongo

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Kingdom of Ndongo was an early-modern African state located in the highlands between the Lukala and Kwanza Rivers, in what is now Angola.

Wikipedia: Kingdom of Ndongo·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Tributary network

A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1492:ndongo
SNAPSHOT1500
MATCHEDndongo
POLITY TYPEtributary

Upgraded from aourednik/historical-basemaps

Wars of this empire8

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Portuguese Conquest of Angola1575–1671
World-changing
Portuguese-Njinga Wars1624–56
World-changing
Imbangala Invasions1600–50
Major conflict
Portuguese-Ndongo War of 1618-16211618–21
Major conflict
Kongo-Ndongo War of 15561556
Significant
Battle of Massangano1583
Significant
Battle of the Lukala1590
Significant
Battle of Pungu-a-Ndongo1671
Regional

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1500 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Kingdom of Ndongo (1500 – 1671). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/ndongo-kingdom · Sources & methodology