Polity Buzinja

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Was one of the precolonial African Great Lakes Kingdoms.

Establishment

  • January 1701: Establishment of Buzinja in Tanganyka.

Chronology

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1. Events

  • January 1801: Establishment of the Kingdom of Buzinza.
  • January 1801: Kome split from Buzinja (Bukura).
  • January 1851: Establishment of Bukome in the actual Bukome rural ward in Tanzania.
  • January 1851: In 1850, Buhimba split from Buzinja (Bukura).
  • January 1852: Bwina split from Kimwani.
  • January 1854: Establishment of the Kingdom of East Ussuwi as a split from the Kingdom of Buzinja (Buzinza).

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