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The Anziku kingdom manufactured and sold fabrics made of leaves, which doubled as currency throughout the region. Their position closer to the interior also made ivory accessible. Along with these products, the Anziku sold slaves which they brought to the coast in return for cowries , salt , silk , linen and glass .
The word Anziku comes from the KiKongo phrase "Anziku Nziku" meaning "to run" referring to inhabitants who leave the interior to protect the border. The term was applied most famously to the Bateke, which is why the state is sometimes called the kingdom of Teke or Tiyo. Other groups within the Anziku included the Bampunu and Banzabi.
Prior to the establishment of Kinshasa, the area was for a time part of the Anziku Kingdom. By about 1698, it had become an essentially independent domain known as Nkonkobela. [38] The city was established as a trading post by Henry Morton Stanley in 1881. [39] It was named Léopoldville in honor of Stanley's employer King Leopold II of the ...
Henrique I Nerika a Mpudi was ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo from 1567 to 1568 and the last from the Lukeni kanda dynasty. Like his predecessor Bernardo I, Henrique died while on campaign at the frontiers of the kingdom. He was killed while fighting the BaTeke of the Anziku Kingdom. [1]
There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".
Baol – Kingdom of Baol Basutoland – Kingdom of Basutoland Bavaria – Kingdom of Bavaria Benin – Benin Empire Bhutan – Kingdom of Bhutan; → Bolivia – Bolivian Republic (from August 6, 1825) Bornu – Bornu Empire Brazil – Empire of Brazil (from September 7, 1822) Bremen – Free City of Bremen; Brunei – Sultanate of Brunei
The Kingdom of Kongo existed from the 14th to the early 19th century. Until the arrival of the Portuguese it was the dominant force in the region along with the Kingdom of Luba, the Kingdom of Lunda, the Mongo people and the Anziku Kingdom.
Anziku Kingdom (AD 17th century–19th century) Yeke Kingdom; Egypt. Dynasty I of Egypt (c. 3100–2900 BC) Dynasty II of Egypt ... Kings of the Swahili city-states: