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Kingdom of Luba Luba | |||||||||
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1585–1889 | |||||||||
Capital | Mwibele (today in Haut-Lomami) | ||||||||
Common languages | Kiluba[1] | ||||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
muLopwe | |||||||||
• c. 1780 – 1810 | Ilunga Sungu | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 1585 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1889 | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• | 1 million | ||||||||
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Today part of | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
The Kingdom of Luba or Luba Empire (1585–1889) was a pre-colonial Central African state that arose in the marshy grasslands of the Upemba Depression in what is now southern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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