State · 1518 – 1683
Kingdom of Ndongo
A state of 1518 – 1683 — 165 years. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 165 years
- 1518 – 1683
- Rulers
- 2
- the queen
- Within it
- 1
- recorded row
- Symbol
- 1
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of queen.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbara of Matamba | 1663 – 1666 | 3 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Verónica I of Matamba | 1681 – 1721 | 40 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone |
2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1663 – 1721. Median reign 21.5 years. 0 of 1 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Flag or arms
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
flag, undatedFlag of the Kingdom of Ndongo · CC0
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1500 – 15991 row
- Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba · person · 1582 – 1663
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood165 years
stood longer than 57% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median40 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 91% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1501 – 1700, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1601, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1796232 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.