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'''Barotseland''' is a region between [[Namibia]], [[Botswana]], [[Zimbabwe]], [[Zambia]] and [[Angola]], and is the homeland of the [[Lozi people]] or ''Barotse'',<ref>The prefix "Ba-" indicates "the people/tribe of"; "Lozi" or "-rotse" are different interpretations/spellings of the same word. "Si-" indicates the language.</ref> or Malozi as they call themselves who are a unified group of over 20 individual formerly diverse tribes related through kinship, whose original branch are the Luyi (Maluyi), and also assimilated northern Sotho of South Africa who they called [[Sotho people#Zulu expansionism and White migration|Kololo]].<ref name="Phiri">{{Cite encyclopedia|author=Phiri, Bizeck J.|year=2005|editor=Shillington, Kevin|title=Lozi Kingdom and the Kololo|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of African History, Volume II, H-O|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn (Routledge)|location=New York|pages=[http://books.google.com/books?id=umyHqvAErOAC&pg=PA851 851–852]|isbn=978-1-57958-454-2}}</ref><ref name="UPNO">{{Cite web|title=Barotseland|publisher=Unrepresented Peoples and Nations Organization|url=http://www.unpo.org/members/16714|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103091001/http://www.unpo.org/members/16714|archivedate=3 January 2014|deadurl=no}}</ref>
'''Barotseland''' is a region between Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, [[Zambia]] and Angola, and is the homeland of the [[Lozi people]] or ''Barotse'',<ref>The prefix "Ba-" indicates "the people/tribe of"; "Lozi" or "-rotse" are different interpretations/spellings of the same word. "Si-" indicates the language.</ref> or Malozi as they call themselves who are a unified group of over 20 individual formerly diverse tribes related through kinship, whose original branch are the Luyi (Maluyi), and also assimilated northern Sotho of South Africa who they called [[Sotho people#Zulu expansionism and White migration|Kololo]].<ref name="Phiri">{{Cite encyclopedia|author=Phiri, Bizeck J.|year=2005|editor=Shillington, Kevin|title=Lozi Kingdom and the Kololo|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of African History, Volume II, H-O|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn (Routledge)|location=New York|pages=[http://books.google.com/books?id=umyHqvAErOAC&pg=PA851 851–852]|isbn=978-1-57958-454-2}}</ref><ref name="UPNO">{{Cite web|title=Barotseland|publisher=Unrepresented Peoples and Nations Organization|url=http://www.unpo.org/members/16714|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103091001/http://www.unpo.org/members/16714|archivedate=3 January 2014|deadurl=no}}</ref>


The Barotse speak a complex language, [[Silozi]], derived from several languages but primarily [[Sesotho]]. Barotseland covers an area of 126,386 square kilometres, but is estimated to have been twice as large at certain points in its history. Once an empire, the kingdom stretched into Namibia and Angola and included other parts of Zambia, including its central [[Copperbelt Province]], south-west of the Democratic Republic of Congo's [[Katanga Province]].
The Barotse speak a complex language, [[Silozi]], derived from several languages but primarily [[Sesotho]]. Barotseland covers an area of 126,386 square kilometres, but is estimated to have been twice as large at certain points in its history. Once an empire, the kingdom stretched into Namibia and Angola and included other parts of Zambia, including its central [[Copperbelt Province]], south-west of the Democratic Republic of Congo's [[Katanga Province]].
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