Damaraland
Damaraland proper noun: the north-central part of a region that later became Namibia, inhabited by the Damaras, bounded roughly by Ovamboland in the north, the Namib Desert in the west, the Kalahari Desert in the east, and Windhoek in the south.
Proper noun
Damaraland
- The north-central part of a region that later became Namibia, inhabited by the Damaras, bounded roughly by Ovamboland in the north, the Namib Desert in the west, the Kalahari Desert in the east, and Windhoek in the south.
- A bantustan in South-West Africa (present-day Namibia), intended by the apartheid government of the 1970s as a self-governing homeland for the Damara people.
Origin of Damaraland
From Damara + -land.
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Questions about Damaraland
- What does Damaraland mean?
- Damaraland means the north-central part of a region that later became Namibia, inhabited by the Damaras, bounded roughly by Ovamboland in the north, the Namib Desert in the west, the Kalahari Desert in the east, and Windhoek in the south.
- What part of speech is Damaraland?
- Damaraland is a proper noun.
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