Damaraland

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia | Date: 2007

Historical region, north-central Namibia. Occupied by the Herero and Khoisan people, who subjugated the original Bergdama people there, it extends between the Namib and Kalahari deserts and from Ovamboland to Great Namaqualand, centring on Windhoek. The grassland region was suited both to the nomadic hunting and pastoral life of its original inhabitants and to the cattle breeding of the Europeans who, in the early 20th century, displaced the indigenous peoples and confiscated their herds.



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