The full title of those who ruled over the Northern Mbundu Kingdom of Ndongo was Ngola a Kilanje. The kingdom was south of Kingdom of Kongo. The last ruling dynasty moved east to the nearby Kingdom of Matamba, and continued to rule independently until 1741.

Ngola was the title for rulers of the Ndongo kingdom 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.

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.

Ndongo’s kings bore the title ngola, which later gave its name to the Portuguese colony of Angola. Portugal had intermittent relations with Ndongo from 1520, but it was only in 1575 that a Portuguese base was established—by Paulo Dias de Novais at Luanda Island.

2023年1月8日 · Ambundo was originally home to many small polities (murindas) of independent rulers that fought to expand their territory, and the most successful of them was Ngola (Angola) Inene whose dynasty ruled Ndongo.

Ngola Mbandi Kiluanji, the King of Ndongo, died in 1617. His son, Ngola Mbandi, became the new king but he had neither his father’s charisma nor the intelligence of his sister Njinga Mbandi. In 1622, harried by the Portuguese, he sent Njinga Mbandi to Luanda as his envoy to negotiate for peace with Dom João Correia de Sousa, the Portuguese ...

2023年3月21日 · Ndongo is an ancient territory born in early modern times. Its traces back to the 16th century. At that time, it was a vassal state of the Kingdom of Kongo. Its founder called Ngola Kiluanje or Ngola Inene was a leader of a Kimbundu speaking group. It is also his…

A brief account of the life and times of one of the earliest recorded African warrior queens, Queen Nzinga (aka Nzinga; Dona Ana de Sousa; Ana de Souza; Zhinga; N'Zhinga; Jinga; Ngola Ana Nzinga Mbande), renowned for her strategic military …

2022年3月8日 · Njinga Mbandi, Ngola of the kingdoms of Ndongo and Matamba would die in 1666, at an estimated age of around 80. The monarch would spend zir final years settling escaped slaves to the kingdoms. Njinga built on Matamba’s location as the ‘gateway to Central Africa’ to build a wealthy, mercantile nation.

Rumors that Ngola wanted to be baptized—like the neighboring king of Kongo —led the Portuguese Crown to send an embassy to Ndongo in 1520. However, Ngola ordered the arrest of the emissaries, who were only released due to Kongo intervention.