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Name: mbwila

Type: Cluster

Start: 1601 AD

End: 1758 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Mbwila
  • Mbwila (Portugal)
  • Establishment


  • January 1601: The origins of the polity of Mbwila are unknown, and it is first mentioned only in the early seventeenth century.
  • Chronology


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    1. Events


  • January 1621: The Kasanje Kingdom was formed in 1620 by a mercenary band of Imbangala, which had deserted the Portuguese ranks.

  • January 1621: In 1619-20, Portuguese forces from the colony of Angola, founded in 1575, attacked Mbwila and forced its ruler to sign an act of vassalage.

  • January 1631: In 1627-30, when the Portuguese were seeking to subdue the forces of Queen Njinga of Ndongo, Mbwila ceased to be obedient to Portugal.

  • January 1694: Portugal sent another major army to attack Mbwila and reassert its vassalage in 1692-3.

  • January 1701: The chiefdom of Mbailundu was established in part of the Kimbundu speaking-areas of Angola by Katiavala I in ca. 1700.

  • January 1701: End of Mbwila vassalage to Portugal.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1759: After a number of unsuccessful attempts, the Portuguese built a fort at Encoge, not far to the south of Mbwila in an attempt to control the trade in 1758.
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