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- Yeke_Kingdom abstract "The Yeke Kingdom (also called the Garanganze or Garenganze kingdom) of the Garanganze people in Katanga, DR Congo was short-lived, existing from about 1856 to 1891 under one king, Msiri, but it became for a while the most powerful state in south-central Africa, controlling a territory of about half a million square kilometres. The Yeke Kingdom also controlled the only trade route across the continent from east and west, since the Kalahari Desert and Lozi Kingdom in the south and the Congo rainforest in the north blocked alternative routes. It achieved this control through natural resources and force of arms—Msiri traded Katanga's copper principally, but also slaves and ivory, for gunpowder and firearms—and by alliances through marriage. The most important ones were with Portuguese–Angolans in the Benguela area, with Tippu Tip in the north and with Nyamwezi and Swahili traders in the east, and indirectly with the Sultan of Zanzibar who controlled the east coast traders.Msiri was in fact a Nyamwezi (also known as 'Yeke' or 'Bayeke') from Tabora in Tanzania who got himself appointed as successor to a Wasanga chief west of the Luapula River by defeating the chief's Lunda enemies. Once installed he conquered the neighbouring tribes and expanded the chieftainship into a kingdom.From its capital at Bunkeya, the Yeke Kingdom took over the western territory of Mwata Kazembe, stopped the southwards expansion of the Luba Empire and subjugated tribes in the southwest, on the trading route to Angola.When King Leopold II of Belgium was told that the Yeke Kingdom controlled east-west trade and was rich in copper and possibly gold, he sent expeditions to try to obtain a treaty for the kingdom to be joined with his Congo Free State (CFS). Cecil Rhodes also sent expeditions to sign up the kingdom to his British South Africa Company's chartered territories. The 'scramble for Katanga' was won by Leopold's Stairs Expedition, which ended the kingdom by killing Msiri, and took over the territory for the CFS but with its own administration until it was more closely incorporated into the Belgian Congo.Captain Stairs, the expedition's leader, installed one of Msiri's adopted sons, Mukanda-Bantu, as his successor but of a vastly reduced area with a radius of only 20 km of Bunkeya, and with the status of a chief. The chieftainship continues to this day under the title Mwata Msiri.".
- Yeke_Kingdom capital Bunkeya.
- Yeke_Kingdom dissolutionYear "1891".
- Yeke_Kingdom foundingYear "1856".
- Yeke_Kingdom thumbnail Msiri's_kingdom_in_1880_760x460_lo-res.jpg?width=300.
- Yeke_Kingdom wikiPageID "10404080".
- Yeke_Kingdom wikiPageRevisionID "590125760".
- Yeke_Kingdom capital "Bunkeya".
- Yeke_Kingdom commonName "Yeke Kingdom".
- Yeke_Kingdom continent "Africa".
- Yeke_Kingdom conventionalLongName "Yeke Kingdom".
- Yeke_Kingdom country "Republic of Congo".
- Yeke_Kingdom country "Zambia".
- Yeke_Kingdom era "Scramble for Africa".
- Yeke_Kingdom eventEnd "Msiri's death".
- Yeke_Kingdom eventStart "Msiri's rise to power".
- Yeke_Kingdom governmentType "Monarchy".
- Yeke_Kingdom hasPhotoCollection Yeke_Kingdom.
- Yeke_Kingdom imageMap "Msiri's kingdom in 1880 760x460 lo-res.jpg".
- Yeke_Kingdom imageMapCaption "South-central Africa in 1880 showing the central position of Msiri’s Kingdom and the principal trade routes, with the approximate territories of Msiri’s main allies and the European powers before borders were settled by the Berlin Conference. The east coast trade was controlled by the Sultan of Zanzibar. Areas of influence of other tribes and of France and Germany not shown".
- Yeke_Kingdom leader "Msiri".
- Yeke_Kingdom region "Central Africa".
- Yeke_Kingdom s "Congo Free State".
- Yeke_Kingdom yearEnd "1891".
- Yeke_Kingdom yearLeader "1856".
- Yeke_Kingdom yearStart "1856".
- Yeke_Kingdom subject Category:19th_century_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo.
- Yeke_Kingdom subject Category:Katanga_Province.
- Yeke_Kingdom subject Category:Political_history_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo.
- Yeke_Kingdom subject Category:States_of_pre-colonial_Africa.
- Yeke_Kingdom type AdministrativeDistrict108491826.
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- Yeke_Kingdom type StatesOfPre-colonialAfrica.
- Yeke_Kingdom type YagoGeoEntity.
- Yeke_Kingdom type YagoLegalActorGeo.
- Yeke_Kingdom type YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity.
- Yeke_Kingdom type Country.
- Yeke_Kingdom type Place.
- Yeke_Kingdom type PopulatedPlace.
- Yeke_Kingdom type Wikidata:Q532.
- Yeke_Kingdom type Country.
- Yeke_Kingdom type Place.
- Yeke_Kingdom type Country.
- Yeke_Kingdom type Location.
- Yeke_Kingdom comment "The Yeke Kingdom (also called the Garanganze or Garenganze kingdom) of the Garanganze people in Katanga, DR Congo was short-lived, existing from about 1856 to 1891 under one king, Msiri, but it became for a while the most powerful state in south-central Africa, controlling a territory of about half a million square kilometres.".
- Yeke_Kingdom label "Reino Yeke".
- Yeke_Kingdom label "Reino de Yeke".
- Yeke_Kingdom label "Yeke Kingdom".
- Yeke_Kingdom label "姆西里王国".
- Yeke_Kingdom sameAs Reino_de_Yeke.
- Yeke_Kingdom sameAs Reino_Yeke.
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- Yeke_Kingdom sameAs Q3321385.
- Yeke_Kingdom sameAs Q3321385.
- Yeke_Kingdom sameAs Yeke_Kingdom.
- Yeke_Kingdom wasDerivedFrom Yeke_Kingdom?oldid=590125760.
- Yeke_Kingdom depiction Msiri's_kingdom_in_1880_760x460_lo-res.jpg.
- Yeke_Kingdom isPrimaryTopicOf Yeke_Kingdom.
- Yeke_Kingdom name "Yeke Kingdom".