Queen Nzinga's later realm, a powerful slave-trading state east of Ndongo.
Matamba became a nominal Portuguese vassal in 1744 when Queen Ana II signed a treaty following a Portuguese invasion — though real sovereignty was largely retained — and was finally incorporated into Portuguese Angola in 1909 after a Portuguese military expedition subjugated the kingdom.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Kingdom of Matamba — the shape you scrub through changes in 1631 · 1665.
Covers Njinga's conquest and rule of Matamba, her powerful later realm.
Shillington's survey covers the Mbundu kingdoms of Ndongo and Matamba and the Portuguese conquest of the Angola coast.