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Nkurenkuru (1.093 m above sea level) is a town on the south-western banks of the Kavango River. It is the capital of the Kavango West Region of northern Namibia, located west of Rundu. It is also a former mission station of the Finnish Missionary Society. Nkurenkuru has a population of around 7.650 inhabitants and is homestead of the local Uukwangali kings and until 1936, also was capital for the entire region. Since then, the seat of the regional government was moved to Rundu, due to its strategically more central location. On the opposite, north-eastern banks of the river lies Cuangar in Angola and the two towns are linked via a nearby border post. Today, Nkurenkuru is the second town of the Kavango region, after Rundu. ==History== The history of Nkurenkuru (formerly also ''Kuring Kuru''), Kwangali language: ''„the old place”'', is closely linked with the history of the Kwangali people, the westernmost of the five kingdoms of the Kavango people people. The currently oldest deliverances date around the middle of the 18th century, when Uukwangali queen (''hompa'') Mate I. and her people left their former area of settlement on the Kwando River near Mashi and moved about 500 km to the west into an area near Makuzu , around 20 km to the northwest of Nkurenkuru. Successor of Queen Mate I. became ''hompa'' Nankali (1750–1775).〔http://www.klausdierks.com/Chronology/3.htm〕 During her reign tensions arose with neighboring people and the Kwangali moved from Mazuku first to Sihangu near Mukukuta and then further to Karai (nearby today's ''Cuangar''). Likely during the reign of hompa Siremo, Nkurenkuru was founded in 1820〔http://www.sdinet.co.za/static/pdf/national_informal_settlement_profiles_.pdf〕 and became homestead of the kings under Queen Mpande in 1880.〔http://www.rulers.org/namitrad.html〕 On December 30, 1886, Portugal and Germany signed a bilateral agreement, in which the borders between Angola and South-West Africa were defined along the Okavango River. The tribes of the Kavango people, who at this time settled on both sides of the river, were informed about this new territorial setting only afterwards. On the north side of the river, the Portuguese started with the construction of a number of forts; among others ''Fort Cuangar'', directly opposite of the residence of the Kwangali kings. On the south side, a number of military and missionary expeditions were carried out along the river.〔http://www.klausdierks.com/Chronology/60.htm〕 On August 17, 1909, Berengar von Zastrow, for the German administration, and King Himarua (1886–1910), for the Uukwangali hompas, signed a protection agreement (''Schutzvertrag'') with general authority for the government in Windhuk and land ownership of the kings.〔http://kups.ub.uni-köln.de/volltexte/2005/1321/pdf/Kavango.pdf Andreas Eckl, Konfrontation und Kooperation am Kavango (Nord-Namibia) von 1891 bis 1921, University of Cologne, 2004〕 In response to those forts on the northern side of the river, the German administration opened a police station in Nkurenkuru on June 17, 1910, which over the following years mainly assumed representative tasks. With the outbreak of World War I and a murdered German delegation at Naulila, the police station was used to launch an attack on Fort Cuangar on October 31, 1914, in which all present 30 Portugugese and Angolan soldiers were killed. With the end of the war the station was closed and first replaced by a temporary British occupation and from April 1921 onwards by a permanent governor for the newly established Kavango district. The new local government resulted in an extended political presence of the new League of Nations mandate government of South-West Africa, but already in 1936 the administration was moved to Rundu, which was also chosen as the new district capital. Consequently, during the following 50 years Nkurenkuru fell into increasing insignificance. 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「Nkurenkuru」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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