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Name: Uukwanyama

Type: Polity

Start: 1551 AD

End: 1895 AD

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Was a precolonial chifdom or kingdom of Namibia.

Establishment


  • January 1551: The chiefdom of Uukwanyama is traditionally considered to have been established in 1550. It was located in the Kwanayama region between Angola and Namibia
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    1. Events


  • January 1651: Nembulung lyNgwendha was the first leader of Ondonga chiefdom in the region of Ondangwa and Onombango from 1650 to 1690.

  • January 1701: Establishment of Uukwambi in Namibia.

  • October 1885: In 1885, William Worthington Jordan bought a tract (fifty thousand square kilometers) of land from the Ovambo chief Kambonde for three hundred pounds. Here he established the Republic of Upingtonia on 20 October 1885.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1896: Uukwanyama became a German protectorate integrated in German South West Africa (modern-day Namibia).
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