Tributary network · approximate1300 – 1894 · 594 years

Buganda Kingdom

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

Overview

Buganda is a Bantu kingdom within Uganda. The kingdom of the Baganda people, Buganda is the largest of the traditional kingdoms in present-day East Africa, consisting of Uganda's Central Region, including the Ugandan capital Kampala. The 14 million Baganda make up the largest Ugandan region, representing approximately 16% of Uganda's population.

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Borders & accuracy

Tributary network

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

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps
SNAPSHOT1870
POLITY TYPEtributary

Wars of this empire3

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

Buganda religious wars1888–93
Major conflict
Bunyoro resistance under Kabarega1893–99
Major conflict
Acholi-Buganda war (1893–94)1893–94
Regional

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1300 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Buganda Kingdom (1300 – 1894). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/africa-buganda-kingdom · Sources & methodology