Tributary network · approximate1450 – 1967 · 517 years

Kingdom of Ankole

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

Ankole was a traditional Bantu kingdom in Uganda and lasted from the 15th century until 1967. The kingdom was located in south-western Uganda, east of Lake Edward.

Wikipedia: Ankole·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Tributary network

A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.

SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
DETAILhand-crafted-from-atlases
SNAPSHOT1870
POLITY TYPEtributary

Wars of this empire1

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Ankole–Bunyoro wars1700–1900
Regional

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1450 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Kingdom of Ankole (1450 – 1967). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/africa-ankole-kingdom · Sources & methodology