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Ngola was the title for rulers of the Ndongo kingdom which existed from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century in what is now north-west Angola.[1] The full title was "Ngola a Kiluanje", which is often shortened to simply "Ngola", hence the name of the modern country.

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  1. ^ Mark R. Lipschutz; R. Kent Rasmussen (1989). Dictionary of African Historical Biography. University of California Press. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-520-06611-3.