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Name: Kingdom of Soukouma

Type: Polity

Start: 1801 AD

End: 1890 AD

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Was one of the precolonial African Great Lakes Kingdoms.

Establishment


  • January 1801: Unyanyembe was a 19th-century kingdom where the main ethnic group was known as the Nyamwezi, although many other ethnic groups were present as well.
  • January 1801: Establishment of the Kingdom of Soukouma.
  • Chronology


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    1. Events


  • July 1890: Conquest of Kingdom of Soukouma. By 1st july 1890 Germany controlled all of Tanganyka (the continental part of modern-day Tanzania), Burundi and Rwanda as with the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty the treaty with the East Africa Protectorate controlled by Britain was fixed.

  • Disestablishment


  • July 1890: Conquest of Kingdom of Soukouma. By 1st july 1890 Germany controlled all of Tanganyka (the continental part of modern-day Tanzania), Burundi and Rwanda as with the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty the treaty with the East Africa Protectorate controlled by Britain was fixed.
  • Selected Sources


  • Langer, W. L. (1951): The Diplomacy of Imperialism, 1890-1902, (1951) , Cambridge (USA), pp. 6-10
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