page_title: Damara people
section_title: Kings
hierarchical_section_title: Damara people / Kings
caption_attribution_description: English: His Royal Higness King of the Damara Nation Gaob Justus ǀUruhe ǁGaroëb
context_page_description: The Damara, plural Damaran are an ethnic group who make up 8.5% of Namibia's population. They speak the Khoekhoe language and the majority live in the northwestern regions of Namibia, however they are also found widely across the rest of the country. They have no known cultural relationship with any of the other ethnicities anywhere else in Africa, and very little is known of their origin. It has been proposed that the Damara are a remnant population of South-Western Africa hunter-gatherers, otherwise only represented by the Cimba, Kwisi, and Kwadi, who adopted the Khoekhoe language of the immigrant Nama people. However, recent genetic studies have found that Damara are closely related to neighbouring Himba and Herero people, consistent with an origin from Bantu speakers who shifted to a different language and culture.
  Their name in their own language is the "Daman". The name "Damaqua" stems from the addition of the Khoekhoe suffix "-qua/khwa" meaning "people".
  Prior to 1870 the hunter-gatherer Damaran occupied most of central Namibia they used to practice pastoralism with sheep and cattle, but were also agriculturalist planting pumpkins, corn, tobacco.
context_section_description: Gaob ǁAruseb (1640–1665)- ǂKhanubes (Okanjande) in the vicinity of ǃHob (Waterberg)
  Gaob ǀNarimab (1665–1715)- Gamaǂhiras (Otjimbamba)
  Gaob ǃGariseb (1715–1740)- Guxanus (near Waterberg) and ǂKhanubes (Okanjande)
  Gaob ǀNawabeb (1740- 1790)-  ǂKhanubes (Okanjande)
  Gaob Xamseb (1790–1812)- ǀAeǁgams (Windhoek)
  Kai Gaob ǃGausib ǁGuruseb (1812- 1865)- ǂGans (Gamsberg)
  Gaob Abraham ǁGuruseb (1865– 1880)- ǂGans (Gamsberg) and (1866–1880)- ǀÂǂgommes (Okombahe)
  Gaob Cornelius Goreseb (1880– 1910)- ǀÂǂgommes (Okombahe)
  Gaob Judas Goreseb (1910–1953)
  Gaob David Goreseb (1953–1976)
  Gaob Justus ǀUruhe ǁGaroëb (1977–present)
caption: His Royal Highness King of the Damara Nation Gaob Justus ǀUruhe ǁGaroëb
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