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The Kingdom of Ndongo is first recorded in the sixteenth century. It was one of a number of vassal states to Kongo that existed in the region, though Ndongo was the most powerful of these. After several decades of resistance the kingdom was subdued by the Portuguese in 1671 , but it continued to appear on maps into the 19th century. The Portuguese colony, extending far beyond the Ndongo Kingdom, its name was derived from that of the Ndongo king the ''ngola'', also the source of the name Angola.


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