THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1629–1730

Akwamu

Akan kingdom in the hills north of Accra (Atewa hills), first recorded on a Dutch map of 1629, before its conquest of the coast. Source: Wikipedia 'Akwamu'.

After taking Accra (1677–81) and Ladoku (1679) Akwamu ruled the coast from the Accra plains to the Volta, and crossed it in 1702; Akyem and its allies destroyed it in 1730. Source: Wikipedia 'Akwamu'.

See Akwamu on the map in 1677

On the map
1629–1730
Capital
Nyanaoase

Rulers named in the sources

African kingdoms and states, 430–1911

Besides the large empires and the colonial powers, Africa had many other states: the Berber kingdoms of late-Roman Mauretania and the Aurès; the Wolof states of Senegambia, the Fula imamates, Kaabu and the Moorish emirates; Kong, the Mossi kingdoms, Dagbon, Denkyira, Akwamu, Dahomey and Benin; the Hausa kingdoms, Nupe, Kebbi, Agadez, Damagaram and Baguirmi; the Ethiopian, Gibe and Somali sultanates and kingdoms, the Shilluk, Kilwa and Pate; Buganda, Bunyoro, Rwanda and Burundi; Loango, Ndongo, Matamba, Kasanje, Kuba, Luba, Lunda and Kazembe; Mapungubwe, Great Zimbabwe, Mutapa, Butua and the Rozvi; and Maravi, Gaza, the Nguni and Sotho kingdoms, the Lozi and the Sakalava. Dates and rulers come from cited reference articles. Few pre-colonial African frontiers were ever surveyed or described, and many of these states ruled people and trade routes more than fixed territory.

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