Damaraland
/ˈdæmərəˌlænd/noun
A historical region of central-western Namibia associated with the Damara people.
Did you know?Damaraland became prominent as a German colonial geographical designation in the late nineteenth century, although the Damara people and their culture long predated that name.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
Proto-Germanic
*landą
“Land or territory; the ancestral Germanic root of “land””
Old English
Old English
land
“Earth, ground, country, or territory”
19th Century
German
Damaraland
“A colonial geographical name meaning the territory associated with the Damara”
1880s–1910s
German colonial usage
Damaraland
“A region within German South West Africa, broadly in present-day central-western Namibia”
Modern English
English
Damaraland
“A historical and cultural region of Namibia”