Kingdom of Ndongo

The Kingdom of Ndongo, 1515-1909, (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.

Not to be confused with Ndongo (surname).
Historical states of present-day Angola
Kingdom of Matamba
Kingdom of Ndongo
Kingdom of Kongo
Imbangala
    Lunda Empire
    Baixa de Kassanje
    Mbwila
      Ngoyo
        Mbunda Kingdom
        Portuguese West Africa
          Republic of Angola

          The Kingdom of Ndongo is first recorded in the sixteenth century. It was one of multiple vassal states to Kongo, though Ndongo was the most powerful of these with a king called the Ngola.

          Little is known of the kingdom in the early sixteenth century. "Angola" was listed among the titles of the King of Kongo in 1535, so it was likely somewhat subordinate to Kongo. Its oral traditions, collected in the late sixteenth century, particularly by the Jesuit Baltasar Barreira, described the founder of the kingdom, Ngola Kiluanje, also known as Ngola Inene, as a migrant from Kongo, chief of a Kimbundu-speaking ethnic group.

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