Editing Lubango (section)

===Portuguese rule===
[[File:Canyon in the Huila Plateau, image 5.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Canyon in Lubango.]]
In 1882 approximately one thousand Portuguese settlers came from the island of [[Madeira]] to the area of current-day Lubango. These Portuguese farmers helped develop the region and founded the settlement. The city, originally established in 1885 to serve colonists from the Madeira Islands, lies at an elevation of 1,760 metres in a valley of the [[Huíla Plateau]] and was surrounded by a scenic park spreading up the mountain slopes.{{Citation needed|date=October 2018}}

By 1910 there were over 1,700 ethnic Portuguese living in the settlement, which was referred to as "Lubango". By 1923 the [[Moçâmedes Railway]] had connected the settlement to the town of [[Namibe|Moçâmedes]] in the coast. The Portuguese government made it a city and renamed it "Sá da Bandeira", after [[Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo, 1st Marquess of Sá da Bandeira|Bernardo de Sá, 1st Marquess of Sá da Bandeira]]. Once the major centre of Portuguese settlement, it was built in a Portuguese style of architecture, with a [[cathedral]], [[commerce]] hall, industrial hall, and a [[secondary school]], and, like every Portuguese city or town in the mainland and the overseas territories, it would have the Portuguese town hall, the hospital and the typical [[CTT Correios de Portugal, S.A.|CTT]] post office, besides banking (most prominently the [[Banco Nacional Ultramarino]] - BNU), insurance and other services as well. The city developed as a notable [[agricultural]] and [[transportation]] centre, with its own airport and railway station, as well as major maintenance and repair facilities for them.{{Citation needed|date=March 2020}}

Several [[Basters]] (children of African and [[Cape Colony]] [[Dutch people|Dutch]] descent) emigrated from Namibia to Angola and settled in Lubango, where they are known as the Ouivamo. Many of them were forced to return to [[Namibia]] between 1928 and 1930 by white South Africans.

In 1951, the Portuguese colony of Angola was officially rebranded the [[Angola (Portugal)|Overseas Province of Angola]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWZi7j1GGQg SáDaBandeiraAnosOuro.wmv], a film of Sá da Bandeira, [[Overseas Province of Angola]], before 1975.</ref>