Mbwila (Portugal): All Data

This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.

Was a precolonial polity in Angola, first mentioned only in the early seventeenth century. 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. It remained a Portuguese vassal for 80 years.