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Angola Ethnic map 1970
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Polity Africa

Ovimbundu

Attested 1880 CE – 1900 CE

Ethnic group in central-southern Angola

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How these dates were made

Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 2 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Ovimbundu appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1880 CE 2 snapshots 1900 CE
1880 CE1900 CE

Elsewhere in Africa at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Africa

Taï National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Algeria

Founded 1900 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

First Boer War

1880 CE – 1881 CE

Landmark · Africa

Rwenzori Mountains

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Tunisia

Founded 1900 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Mandinka Wars (Samori Ture's Resistance)

1883 CE – 1898 CE

Landmark · Africa

Serengeti National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

British Somaliland

1884 CE – 1960 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1880 CE and 1900 CE.

1880 CE First Boer War 1883 CE Mandinka Wars (Samori Ture's Resistance) 1890 CE Franco-Dahomean Wars 1893 CE Matabele Wars 1899 CE Second Boer War 1899 CE Somaliland Campaign (Dervish War)

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Sagrada Família Landmark · Europe 1882 CE – still standing Cuba Polity · Americas Founded 1898 CE · attested to 2026 CE Tea Clipper Route Trade route · Europe 1850 CE – 1880 CE Charles Darwin Figure · England 1809 CE – 1882 CE Argentine Civil Wars Conflict · Americas 1814 CE – 1880 CE Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood Landmark · Europe 1883 CE – still standing
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