Namaland

Namaland is introduced by the German colonial administration name for the main settlement area of the Nama in the extreme south of the colony of German South West Africa. However, the settlement area extends south on the Orange away up in the northern Cape Province in and says there is still Namaqualand. The name was later taken over by the South African government and used in connection with the Odendaal Plan as the name of the Nama assigned homelands. After Namibia's independence in 1990 the name was officially abolished; the Namaland today is in the administrative regions of Karas, Hardap, Khomas, Erongo and Omaheke.

Wholesale and retail Namaland

For the colonial period was between upper Namaland, north of the Orange River, and small - Namaland, south of the Orange River, distinguished. The former was one of 1884-1919 to the German, the latter to the British colonial territory. Wholesale Namaland ranged from 23 degrees south latitude to the said border river and from the Atlantic coast to the neighboring British Bechuanaland. Small Namaland however, formed the north-west of the British Cape Colony.

Historical Gallery

Landscape of large - Namaland

Farm in Great Namaland

Nama people Bantustan ǁKaras Region Hardap Region Khomas Region Erongo Region Omaheke Region Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon Bushmanland Damaraland Hereroland Kaokoland Kavangoland Tswanaland

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