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Shambaa Kingdom
The Shambaa Kingdom Uflame wa Usambara (Swahili) | |||||||||||
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| c.1730s–December 1962 | |||||||||||
 Location of Shambaa Kingdom c.1897 | |||||||||||
.jpg) Map of Usambara from 1910 | |||||||||||
| Capital | Vugha | ||||||||||
| Official languages | Shambaa | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Shambaa, Ngulu, Bondei, Zigua, Digo, Pare & Swahili | ||||||||||
| Religion | African traditional religions & Sunni Islam | ||||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Sambaan | ||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||
| Mwene (King) | |||||||||||
• First | Mwene Mbegha (c.1730s-1790s) | ||||||||||
• Last | Mwene Kimweri Mputa Magogo (1947-1962) | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | c.1730s | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | December 1962 | ||||||||||
| Currency | None (barter) | ||||||||||
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| Today part of |  Tanzania | ||||||||||
| Person | Msambaa |
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| People | Wasambaa |
| Language | Kisambaa |
| Country | Usambara Kingdom |
The Shambaa Kingdom[1] or Usambara Kingdom also historically referred to as the The Kingdom of Usambara ( Umweri ye Shambaai in Shambaa; Ufalme wa Usambara, in Swahili) was a pre-colonial Bantu sovereign kingdom of the Shambaa people on the Usambara mountains in modern-day northern Tanga Region of Tanzania.[2] The Kilindi dynasty ruled the kingdom for more than 232 years, enduring the slave trade, German invasion, and British occupation until the Tanganyikan government disbanded it in 1962.[3]
- ^ Feierman, Steven (1974). The Shambaa Kingdom: A History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 73. ISBN 9780299063603.
- ^ Håkansson, N. Thomas. "History, Politics, and Culture in the Highlands of Northeastern Tanzania." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. 2021.
- ^ Willis, Justin. "‘And so they called a kiva’: Histories of a war." AZANIA: Journal of the British Institute in Eastern Africa 25.1 (1990): 79-85.
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