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Realm · approximate borders · 1710–1897

Kong Empire

Dyula trading state of the Wattara at Kong, at its widest under Seku Wattara, who extended it north toward Bobo-Dioulasso and the Black Volta. Source: Wikipedia 'Kong Empire'.

After Seku Wattara's death (1745) the northern conquests broke away (Gwiriko at Bobo-Dioulasso) and Kong remained a smaller merchant state; Binger signed agreements there in 1888, and Samori burned it in 1897 (or 1898). Source: Wikipedia 'Kong Empire'.

See Kong Empire on the map in 1710

On the map
1710–1897
Capital
Kong

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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