 This is further evinced by certain "Masai place-names in eastern Nandi which indicate that the Masai had temporary possession of strip of Nandi roughly five miles wide", these include Ndalat, Lolkeringeti, Nduele and Ol-lesos, which were by the early nineteenth century in use by the Nandi as koret names.Nandi county was the scene of the resistance struggle that has come to be known as the Nandi Resistance.The traditional system of governance came to an end c.1905 with the end of the resistance struggle.