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Both classes of men, outlawing clan-to-clan blood feuds, appointing royal relatives as sub-chiefs and village headmen who resided on nyarubanja estates, waging a protracted and largely successful battle to control the
Kubandwa cult mediums who predominated local religion, and setting up elaborate
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By 1800, Ganda had assassinated the Hinda king of
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in East Africa. The kingdom reached its apex during the 19th century. The growth occurred during the early part of the 1800s with King
Ndagara who came to power around 1820 and ruled until 1853 at which time he was replaced by King Rumanika.
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A line of Kings who are claimed to have been from the
Bachwezi and Babiito clans ruled Karagwe. According to legend, Ruhinda—a son of Njunaki, a son of Igaba, and a grandson of Wamalaa—founded the empire.
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Sassoon, Hamo. "Kings, cattle and blacksmiths: royal insignia and religious symbolism in the interlacustrine states." AZANIA: Journal of the
British Institute in Eastern Africa 18.1 (1983): 93-106.
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to its apex in the 19th century. In his honor, the park was previously designated as
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objects. Some are utilitarian, while others are thought to be symbolic cows and hammers which were used symbolically to link the king with iron production.
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had created a single kingdom in the area and that his descendants, the Hinda clan, ruled the successor chiefdoms. The pastoralists, known as
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are thought to be separate from them. The economic orientation of the Haya toward fishing and agriculture and the
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and other the Ugandan and Rwandan states and merchants from the Eastern coast and the rest of eastern Africa.
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ethnic group is descended from the Karagwe Kingdom. They are mostly found in the northwestern
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