Editing N'Djamena (section)

=== Early 20th century ===
[[File:Ndjamena 1952.jpg|thumb|A street in N'Djamena, 1952]]

N'Djamena was founded as '''Fort-Lamy''' by French commander [[Émile Gentil]] on 29 May 1900, and named after [[Amédée-François Lamy]], an army officer who had been killed in the [[Battle of Kousséri]] about a month earlier.<ref>Roman Adrian Cybriwsky, ''Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture'', ABC-CLIO, USA, 2013, p. 208</ref><ref name="inpictures">{{cite book |title=Chad in Pictures |first=Christine |last=Zurocha-Walske |year=2009 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kkB1GaR2SXEC&pg=PT19 |page=17 |isbn=978-1-57505-956-3 |publisher=Twenty-First Century Books |access-date=2015-11-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160430061439/https://books.google.com/books?id=kkB1GaR2SXEC&pg=PT19 |archive-date=2016-04-30 |url-status=live}}</ref> It was a major trading city and became the capital of the region and nation.

During the [[Second World War]], the French relied upon the city's airport to move troops and supplies.<ref name="encyclo">{{cite book |first=Tiyambe |last=Zeleza |author2=Dickson Eyoh |title=Encyclopedia of twentieth-century African history |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kjUHZrPBPPYC&pg=PA379 |page=379 |isbn=978-0-415-23479-5 |year=2003 |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |access-date=2015-11-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160519115813/https://books.google.com/books?id=kjUHZrPBPPYC&pg=PA379 |archive-date=2016-05-19 |url-status=live}}</ref> On 21 January 1942, a lone [[Germany|German]] [[Heinkel He 111]] of the [[Sonderkommando Blaich]] successfully bombed the airfield at Fort-Lamy, destroying oil supplies and ten aircraft.<ref>[http://www.wefly.ifield-park.co.uk/photogal/me1082.htm MESSERSCHMITT Bf 108 – 'TAIFUN'] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323101717/http://www.wefly.ifield-park.co.uk/photogal/me1082.htm |date=2012-03-23}} accessed: 29 April 2011</ref>

Fort-Lamy received its first bank branch in 1950, when the Paris-based [[Banque de l'Afrique Occidentale]] opened a branch there.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}