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Damaraland

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Damaraland

Central region of Namibia between the Namib and Kalahari deserts, traditionally referring to the home area of the Nama- or Damara-speaking Damara and Herero-speaking Herero peoples. The region is largely grassland, and is used for cattle ranching and rearing karakul (breed of sheep). Following regional restructuring 1992-93, Damaraland is now part of Erongo and Kunene districts.

In the 1960s the South African Odendaal Commission recommended the establishment of a more closely defined Damaraland homeland extending from Sesfontein (near the Kaokoland homeland) in the north to Okombake and Otjohorongo (north of the Swakopmund-Windhoek railway) in the south, covering an area of 48,000 sq km/18,533 sq mi. The administrative centre was Khorixas.
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In a species called Damaraland mole rats, for instance, some individuals do a lot of work, while others laze around and do nothing.
Lives of a mole rat by Sohn, Emily / Science News for Kids
Mole rat" is applied to rodents in several families, but the article focused on the Bathyergidae, which includes the Damaraland mole rat (Cryptomys damarensis) and the naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber).
Buried information by McCleve, Scott / Science News
During the 1850-52 trip, Galton used a combination of diplomacy and bluster to tamp down tribal warfare in Damaraland and then entered the remote Ovampoland (also known as Ovamboland), meeting its king.
The first eugenicist: was Francis Galton wrong to want to improve the ... by Silber, Kenneth / Reason
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