Polity Gciriku

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Was a precolonial chifdom or kingdom of Namibia.

Establishment

  • January 1801: Muhera  becomes the first king of the chiefdom of Gciriku.

Chronology

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1. Events

  • January 1851: Bf.1850 Sinyungu.
  • October 1885: In 1885, William Worthington Jordan bought a tract (fifty thousand square kilometers) of land from the Ovambo chief Kambonde for three hundred pounds. Here he established the Republic of Upingtonia on 20 October 1885.

Disestablishment

  • January 1896: Gciriku became a German protectorate integrated in German South West Africa (modern-day Namibia).