Kingdom of Bugesera | |||||||||
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| c. 16th century–c. 1799 | |||||||||
![Bugesera (green) and its neighbors, approximate borders c. 1700[1]](view_image.php?q=Kingdom_of_Bugesera&sq=&lang=&file=File:Kingdom_of_Bugesera.png) Bugesera (green) and its neighbors, approximate borders c. 1700[1] | |||||||||
| Religion | Traditional religion | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Mwami | |||||||||
• fl. 17th/18th century | Nsoro Nyabarega | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | c. 16th century | ||||||||
• Disestablished | c. 1799 | ||||||||
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The Kingdom of Bugesera (Kinyarwanda: Ubugesera)[2] was an independent Bantu kingdom that existed from the 16th to 18th century in Central Africa. Around 1799, it was conquered and divided by the Kingdom of Rwanda and Kingdom of Burundi.
- ^ Ogot 1999, p. 398.
- ^ Twagilimana 2007, p. 21.