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Name: Gciriku

Type: Polity

Start: 1801 AD

End: 1895 AD

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Was a precolonial chifdom or kingdom of Namibia.

Establishment

  • January 1801: Muhera  becomes the first king of the chiefdom of Gciriku.

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    1. Events

  • January 1851: Bf.1850 Sinyungu.

  • October 1885: In 1885, William Worthington Jordan bought a tract (fifty thousand square kilometers) of land from the Ovambo chief Kambonde for three hundred pounds. Here he established the Republic of Upingtonia on 20 October 1885.

    • Disestablishment

  • January 1896: Gciriku became a German protectorate integrated in German South West Africa (modern-day Namibia).

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