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Empire of Kitara, the Glossary

Kitara (sometimes spelt as Kittara or Kitwara, also known as the Chwezi Empire) Empire of the Sun or Empire of the Moon was a legendary empire that is regularly mentioned in the oral traditions of the Rutara people in the African Great Lakes.^[1]

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Ugandan monarchies

African empires

African empires is an umbrella term used in African studies to refer to a number of pre-colonial African kingdoms in Africa with multinational structures incorporating various populations and polities into a single entity, usually through conquest. Empire of Kitara and African empires are Former countries in Africa and Former monarchies of Africa.

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African Great Lakes

The African Great Lakes (Maziwa Makuu; Ibiyaga bigari) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift.

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African historiography

African historiography is a branch of historiography concerning the African continent, its peoples, nations and variety of written and non-written histories.

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Ankole

Ankole was a traditional Bantu kingdom in Uganda and lasted from the 15th century until 1967. Empire of Kitara and Ankole are Ugandan monarchies.

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Apotheosis

Apotheosis, also called divinization or deification, is the glorification of a subject to divine levels and, commonly, the treatment of a human being, any other living thing, or an abstract idea in the likeness of a deity.

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Bigo bya Mugenyi

Bigo bya Mugenyi also known as just Bigo (“city”), is an extensive alignment of ditches and berms comprising ancient earthworks located in the interlacustrine region of southwestern Uganda.

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Biharamulo District

Biharamulo District is one of the eight districts of the Kagera Region of Tanzania.

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Blood brother

Blood brother can refer to two or more people not related by birth who have sworn loyalty to each other.

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Buddu

Buddu is a county (Ssaza) of the kingdom of Buganda in what is now Uganda.

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Buganda

Buganda is a Bantu kingdom within Uganda. Empire of Kitara and Buganda are Ugandan monarchies.

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Bugema University

Bugema University (BMU) is a private, co-educational Ugandan university affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

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Buliisa District

Buliisa District is a district in Western Uganda.

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Bunyoro

Bunyoro, also called Bunyoro-Kitara, is a traditional Bantu kingdom in Western Uganda. Empire of Kitara and Bunyoro are Ugandan monarchies.

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Busoga

Busoga (Lusoga: Obwakyabazinga bwa Busoga) is a kingdom and one of four constitutional monarchies in present-day Uganda. Empire of Kitara and Busoga are Ugandan monarchies.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Federal monarchy

A federal monarchy, in the strict sense, is a federation of states with a single monarch as overall head of the federation, but retaining different monarchs, or having a non-monarchical system of government, in the various states joined to the federation.

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Folk etymology

Folk etymology – also known as (generative) popular etymology, analogical reformation, (morphological) reanalysis and etymological reinterpretation – is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage.

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History of Uganda

The history of Uganda comprises the history of the people who inhabited the territory of present-day Uganda before the establishment of the Republic of Uganda, and the history of that country once it was established.

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Hoima District

Hoima District is a district in Western Uganda.

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Infobase

Infobase is an American publisher of databases, reference book titles and textbooks geared towards the North American library, secondary school, and university-level curriculum markets.

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Isingoma Labongo Rukidi

Isingoma Rukidi Mpuuga (about 1500), others call him Labongo and sometimes Mpuuga Rukidi was the first Biito King (Omukama Omubiito) of Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom in present day western Uganda and the twin brother of Kato Kimera, the first Biito king of Muhwahwa (now Buganda) Kingdom.

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Ituri Province

Ituri Province (Jimbo la Ituri in Swahili) is one of the 21 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning.

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John Roscoe

John Roscoe (1861–1932) was an Anglican missionary to East Africa.

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Kabalega of Bunyoro

Chwa II Kabalega (18 June 1853 – 6 April 1923), was the King or Omukama of Bunyoro in Uganda from 1870 to 1899.

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Kasese District

Kasese District is a district in Western Uganda.

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Kayunga District

Kayunga District is a district in Central Uganda.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

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Kibaale District

Kibaale District, is a district in the Western Region of Uganda.

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Kingdom of Karagwe

Karagwe Kingdom (Ufalme wa Karagwe, in Swahili) was a historical Bantu state in present-day Karagwe District of Kagera Region in northwestern Tanzania, between Rwanda and Lake Victoria. Empire of Kitara and Kingdom of Karagwe are Former countries in Africa.

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Kingdom of Rwanda

The Kingdom of Rwanda was a Bantu kingdom in the modern-day Republic of Rwanda, which grew to be ruled by a Tutsi monarchy. Empire of Kitara and kingdom of Rwanda are Former monarchies of Africa.

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Kiryandongo District

Kiryandongo District is a district in Western Uganda.

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Kyegegwa District

Kyegegwa District is a district in Western Region of Uganda.

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Lango sub-region

Lango sub-region is a region in Uganda covering an area of 15,570.7km consisting of the districts of.

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List of kingdoms in Africa throughout history

There were many kingdoms and empires on the continent of Africa throughout history, as well as some non–contemporary republics. Empire of Kitara and List of kingdoms in Africa throughout history are Countries in precolonial Africa, Former countries in Africa and Former monarchies of Africa.

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Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds

Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds better known as Linant Pasha (Lorient, France, 23 November 1799 – Cairo 9 July 1883) was an explorer of Egypt and, as the chief engineer of Egypt's public works, 1831–1869, an influential engineer of the Suez Canal.

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Madi people

The Mà'dí are a Central Sudanic speaking people that live in Magwi County in Eastern Equatoria, South Sudan and the districts of Adjumani and Moyo in Uganda.

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Masaka District

Masaka District is a district in Buganda Kingdom in Uganda.

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Masindi District

Masindi District is a district in Western Uganda.

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Mawogola County

Mawogola County is a county in the Central Region of Uganda.

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Mubende

Mubende is a town in the Central Region of Uganda.

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Muteesa I of Buganda

Muteesa I Mukaabya Walugembe Kayiira (c. 1837–9 October 1884) was the 30th Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda, from 1856 until 1884.

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Mwenge

Mwenge is a county of the Kyenjojo district in Uganda.

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Nakasongola District

Nakasongola District is the northernmost district of the Central Region of Uganda.

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Nkole people

The Nkole people also known as the Banyankole, are a Bantu ethnic group native to the Ankole region of Uganda.

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Nyoro people

The Nyoro people (Abanyoro), also known as Banyoro are a Bantu ethnic group native to the kingdom of Bunyoro in Uganda.

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Oral tradition

Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.

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Ox

An ox (oxen), also known as a bullock (in British, Australian, and Indian English), is a bovine, trained and used as a draft animal.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Roland Oliver

Roland Anthony Oliver FBA (30 March 1923 – 9 February 2014) was an Indian-born English academic and Emeritus Professor of African history at the University of London.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Ruhanga

Ruhanga features in Bantu spirituality as the remote creator and sky-God, recognized among the Rutara people (Banyoro, Banyankore, Batooro, Bahaya, Bakiga, Bahema and all other groups referred to in general as Banyakitara).

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Rutara languages

The Rutara or Runyakitara languages (endonym: Orutara, Orunyakitara) are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken in the African Great Lakes region.

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Rutara people

The Rutara peoples (endonym: Banyakitara, Abanyakitara) are a group of closely related Bantu ethnic groups native to the African Great Lakes region.

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Ruth Alice Fisher

Ruth Alice Fisher, née Hurditch (1875-1959), sometimes referred to as Ruth B. Fisher, was a British CMS missionary to Uganda.

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Rwanda

Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Sembabule District

Sembabule District is a district in the Central Region of Uganda.

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Songora people

The Songora or Shongora (pl. Basongora, sing. Musongora; also known as "Bacwezi", "Chwezi", Huma or "Bahuma") are a traditionally pastoralist people of the Great Lakes region of Central Africa located in Western Region, Uganda and Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Kitara

Also known as Bachwezi dynasty, Kitara Empire.

, Routledge, Ruhanga, Rutara languages, Rutara people, Ruth Alice Fisher, Rwanda, Sembabule District, Songora people, Ssese Islands, Sukuma people, Tanzania, Tooro Kingdom, Tooro language, Tooro people, Traditional African religions, Uganda, University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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Ugandan monarchies

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