THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1680–1887

Lunda Empire

Commonwealth of the Mwaant Yaav centred on Musumba in southern Katanga, which controlled some 150,000 km² by 1680. Early dates are traditional.

Source: Wikipedia 'Lunda Empire'. Lunda at its height ruled from the Kwango to the Lualaba; Kazembe, Kasanje's trade partners and the Yaka paid tribute. Chokwe invaders sacked Musumba in 1887. Source: Wikipedia 'Lunda Empire'.

See Lunda Empire on the map in 1750

On the map
1680–1887
Capital
Musumba

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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