Zulu Kingdom

Overview

The Zulu Kingdom, sometimes referred to as the Zulu Empire, was a monarchy in Southern Africa. During the 1810s, Shaka established a standing army that consolidated rival clans and built a large following which ruled a wide expanse of Southern Africa that extended along the coast of the Indian Ocean from the Tugela River in the south to the Pongola River in the north, centred on the present KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

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Borders & accuracy

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

• SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
• DETAILhistorical-basemaps
• SNAPSHOT1828
• POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire28

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

• Battle of Isandlwana1879
  World-changing
• Battle of Rorke's Drift1879
  World-changing
• Zulu Expansion1781–1828
  Major conflict · 1.0M dead
• Mfecane1815–40
  Major conflict · 1.0M dead
• Battle of Ulundi1879
  Major conflict
• Zulu Civil War1818–28
  Significant · 100K dead
• Anglo-Zulu War1879
  Significant · 8.0K dead
• Zulu Wars1879
  Significant · 5.0K dead
• Battle of Blood River1838
  Significant · 3.0K dead
• Battle of Gqokli Hill1818
  Significant
• Battle of Mhlatuze River1820
  Significant
• Zulu Civil War of 18401840
  Significant
• Battle of Hlobane1879
  Significant
• Battle of Khambula1879
  Significant
• Battle of Gqokli1818
  Regional
• Battle of Italeni1838
  Regional
• Battle of Maritz River (Veglaer)1838
  Regional
• Weenen Massacre1838
  Regional
• Battle of Bloukranz1838
  Regional
• Battle of Tugela1838
  Regional
• Battle of Veglaer1838
  Regional
• Voortrekker–Zulu war1838–40
  Regional
• Battle of Gingindlovu1879
  Regional
• Battle of Intombe1879
  Regional

+ 4 more in the atlas.