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Name: Usangu

Type: Polity

Start: 1835 AD

End: 1890 AD

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Was one of the precolonial African Great Lakes Kingdoms.

Establishment

  • January 1835: Mui'Gumbi Merere I (d. 1860) becomes the first king of the chiefdom of Usangu.

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    Disestablishment

  • January 1891: 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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