Tributary network · approximate1665 – 1887 · 222 years

Lunda Empire

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

Overview

The Lunda Empire or Lunda Commonwealth was a confederation or commonwealth of states in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, north-eastern Angola, and north-western Zambia. Its central state was in Katanga.

Wikipedia: Lunda Empire·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-traced-from:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunda_Empire
SNAPSHOT1700
POLITY TYPEtributary

Lunda Empire at peak ~1700 (Mwata Yamvo dynasty), centered on Musumba: between Kasai and Lualaba rivers, spanning southern DR Congo, NE Angola, NW Zambia.

Wars of this empire3

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

Lunda Expansion under Mwaant Yaav1650–1750
Significant
Kazembe Conquests1740–1800
Significant
Chokwe Expansion1850–1900
Significant

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1665 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Lunda Empire (1665 – 1887). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/africa-lunda-empire · Sources & methodology