"Damaraland" meaning in All languages combined

See Damaraland on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

Etymology: Damara + land Etymology templates: {{compound|en|Damara|land}} Damara + land Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Damaraland
  1. (historical) The north-central part of what 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. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-Damaraland-en-name-Dpc1Dvyo
  2. (historical) 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. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-Damaraland-en-name-PTu7tYxL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 71
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Damaraland zebra

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