Polity Kotokoli

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Was a precolonial polity in modern-day Togo.

Establishment

  • January 1786: The ciefdom of Kpangalam is established in Sokodé.
  • January 1786: Agoro Dam becomes the first king of the chiefdom of Kotokoli.

Chronology

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1. Events

  • January 1801: Akou Amafou is the first documented ruler of Kpessi.
  • January 1887: From 1886 the northern hinterland of Togo was conquered by Germans, some of it by force.
  • January 1889: In 1888, Ludwig Wolf, a German explorer and colonial administrator, founded the Bismarckburg station in German Togo. This station was named after Otto von Bismarck, the Chancellor of the German Empire at the time.

Disestablishment

  • January 1896: In 1894/95, the colonial officer Hans Gruner led an expedition to the lower Niger on behalf of the German Togo Committee to conclude protection treaties with the Kingdoms there.