Editing Angola (section)

==Etymology==
The name ''Angola'' comes from the [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] colonial name {{lang|pt|[[Portuguese Angola|Reino de Angola]]}} ('Kingdom of Angola'), which appeared as early as [[Paulo Dias de Novais]]'s 1571 charter.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Heywood |first1=Linda M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S42CypbRTlQC&pg=PA82 |title=Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585–1660 |last2=Thornton |first2=John K. |date=2007 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0521770651 |page=82 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150320074507/http://books.google.com/books?id=S42CypbRTlQC&pg=PA82 |archive-date=20 March 2015}}</ref> The [[Toponymy|toponym]] was derived by the Portuguese from the title ''[[Ngola (title)|ngola]]'', held by the kings of [[Kingdom of Ndongo|Ndongo and Matamba]]. Ndongo in the [[highland]]s, between the [[Cuanza River|Kwanza]] and [[Lucala River|Lucala]] rivers, was nominally a possession of the [[Kingdom of Kongo]]. But in the 16th century it was seeking greater independence.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/kingdom-kongo-1390-1914 |title=Kingdom of Kongo 1390–1914 |last=Leander |date=18 May 2016 |website=South African History Online |access-date=25 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223184815/https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/kingdom-kongo-1390-1914 |archive-date=23 February 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>