|
Dithakong is the name of a place east of Kuruman in the Northern Cape, South Africa, which had been a major destination for several of the earliest nineteenth century expeditions from the Cape to the interior of the subcontinent. In colonial literature the name is often rendered in such ways as Litakun, Litakoo, or Lattakoo. ==The nineteenth century Tswana town== At the time of the 1801 Truter-Somerville Expedition Dithakong was an important BaTlhaping (BaTswana) capital under Kgosi ('Chief') Molehebangwe. Significant accounts of this first expedition were left by, amongst others, William Somerville and John Barrow, with well-known watercolour illustrations by Samuel Daniell. Kgosi Mothibi, son of Molehebangwe, had succeeded as leader of the BaTlhaping by the time that William Burchell visited there in 1811. The early traveller accounts refer to an impressively large town consisting of mud houses, traces of which have yet to be located archaeologically.〔Morris, D. 1990. Dithakong. In Beaumont, P. & Morris,D. 1990. ''Guide to archaeological sites in the Northern Cape''. Kimberley: McGregor Museum〕 The Battle of Dithakong in 1823 was part of the conflict and upheavals ending a period of strife referred to in the interior as the Difaqane, and is subject to debate following Cobbing's critique of once orthodox views of the Mfecane as a period of conflict generated by Zulu expansion.〔Cobbing, J. 1988. The Mfecane as Alibi: Thoughts on Dithakong and Mbolompo. ''Journal of African History'', 29; Beck, R.B. ''Slavery in South Africa: Captive Labor on the Dutch Frontier''〕 Dithakong was later subjected to bombardment by colonial forces (under Charles Warren) suppressing a Tswana uprising in 1878. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dithakong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|