Which African capital was named Fort-Lamy from 1900 to 1973?

Which African capital was named Fort-Lamy from 1900 to 1973? N'Djamena.

N'Djamena is the capital and largest city of Chad, located near the confluence of the Chari and Logone rivers. French commander Émile Gentil founded the settlement on 29 May 1900 as Fort-Lamy, naming it for Amédée-François Lamy, a French officer killed at the Battle of Kousséri shortly beforehand.

Fort-Lamy began as a French colonial military outpost and later became an important administrative and commercial centre in French Equatorial Africa. Chad gained independence from France in 1960, but the city retained its colonial name for more than a decade afterward.

On 6 April 1973, President François Tombalbaye renamed it N'Djamena as part of a broader Africanization or “authenticity” program. The new name came from the Arabic name of a nearby village and is commonly explained as meaning “place of rest.” The apostrophe and spelling can vary in informal writing, but N'Djamena is the canonical English answer.