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List of kings of Kuba

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ28402851 ↗
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A list of rulers of the Kuba Kingdom in Central Africa.

Much of the first portion of the list is primarily taken from a 1910 book, Notes Ethnographiques sur les Peuples Communément Appelés Bakuba, ainsi que sur les Peuplades Apparentées, Les Bushongo, written by anthropologists Emil Torday and Thomas Athol Joyce. The spelling used by Torday and Joyce is presented. Many of the kings prior to Shyaam aMbul aNgoong have limited information available.

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