Damaraland

Damaraland


Capital	Welwitschia
size	47,990 km²
Residents	44,353 (1960)
Form of government	Homeland
Chairman of the Damar Council	1980–1989: Justus ǁGaroëb
founding	1970 (1980)
resolution	May 1989 (before Namibia's independence )
currency	South African rand
license plate	SWA
Location of the former homeland Damaraland in South West Africa

The Damaraland is still more familiar term for an at times German South West Africa named areas in northwestern Namibia , the main settlement area of the same name Damara is. It later became a homeland based on the South African Odendaal Plan at the beginning of apartheid .

The capital of the former homeland was Welwitschia (now Khorixas ). It had a size of 47,990 square kilometers and was home to about 44,300 people in 1960.

The actual head between 1980 and 1989 was the chairman of the Damarate Justus ǁGaroëb .

expansion

Map of Southern Africa with Damaraland (1905)

It extends south of the Kaokoveld to about today's national road B2 between Swakopmund and Usakos and in the west reaches up to the Skeleton Coast . Part of this is also the Grootberg and the Brandberg massif as well as the northern foothills of the Great Edge step .

Even at the time of German colonization as German South West Africa , an area in northern Namibia was known as Damaraland .

gallery

Euphorbia damarana
Damaraland north of "Brandberg West" between the Ugab and Huab rivers

annotation

↑ Note: This article contains characters from the alphabet of the Khoisan languages spoken in southern Africa . The display contains characters of the click letters ǀ , ǁ , ǂ and ǃ . For more information on the pronunciation of long or nasal vowels or certain clicks , see e.g. B. under Khoekhoegowab .

Web links

Commons : Damaraland - collection of images, videos and audio files

Mineral Atlas - Damaraland

Individual evidence

^ South-West Africa, Proposed Homelands. in: The Bantustan Proposals for South-West Africa, p. 179. ( Memento from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
^ South-West Africa, Proposed Homelands. in: The Bantustan Proposals for South-West Africa, p. 181. ( Memento from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

[Khivorlage-1] Note: This article contains characters from the alphabet of the Khoisan languages spoken in southern Africa . The display contains characters of the click letters ǀ , ǁ , ǂ and ǃ . For more information on the pronunciation of long or nasal vowels or certain clicks , see e.g. B. under Khoekhoegowab .

[2] South-West Africa, Proposed Homelands. in: The Bantustan Proposals for South-West Africa, p. 179. ( Memento from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

[3] South-West Africa, Proposed Homelands. in: The Bantustan Proposals for South-West Africa, p. 181. ( Memento from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )