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The Kingdom of Ndongo, formerly known as Dongo or Angola, is the name of an early-modern African state located in what is modern -day Angola. 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 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 is likely that it was in somewhat subordinate to Kongo. Its own 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, but the head of a Kimbundu speaking ethnic group. == Social and Political Structure == The Kimbundu-speaking region was known as the land of Mbundu, and according to late sixteenth-century accounts, it was divided into 736 small political units ruled by ''sobas''. These sobas and their territories (called ''murinda'') were compact groupings of villages (''senzala'' or ''libatas'', probably following the Kikongo term ''divata'') surrounding a small central town (''mbanza''). These political units were often grouped into larger units called ''kanda'' and sometimes provinces. Larger kingdoms may have emerged in earlier times, but in the sixteenth century most of these regions had been united by the rulers of Ndongo. Ndongo's capital city was called Kabasa, located on the highlands near modern-day N'dalatando. This was a large town, holding as many as 50,000 people in its densely populated district. The king of Ndongo and the leaders of the various provinces ruled with a council of powerful nobles, the ''macota'', and had an administration headed by the ''tendala'', a judicial figure, and the ''ngolambole'', a military leader. In Ndongo itself, the ruler had an even larger group of bureaucrats, including a quartermaster called ''kilunda'' and another similar official called the ''mwene kudya''. Social structure was anchored on the ''ana murinda'' ("children of the ''murinda''") or free commoners. In addition to the commoners, there were two servile groups the ''ijiko'' (sing., ''kijiko''), unfree commoners who were permanently attached to the land as serfs, and the ''abika'' (sing., ''mubika'') or salable slaves. 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「Kingdom of Ndongo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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