Kitara Empire

Japanese: キタラ帝国 - きたらていこく
Kitara Empire

...The backgrounds and factors are so diverse that it is impossible to generalize, but the main ones that have not been mentioned so far are briefly described below by region. In addition to the kingdoms of Bantu agricultural people in Central Africa, such as the Congo mentioned above, it is said that the Kitara Empire was formed in the Great Lakes region of East Africa by Nilese pastoralists from the north who dominated the Bantu agricultural people around the 13th to 15th centuries. The nations that continued to exist until the European colonial rule in the 19th century, such as Bunyoro, Ankole, Buganda (now Uganda), and Luanda (now Rwanda), are said to be descendants of the Kitara Empire.

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Kitara Empire" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…その背景や要因は多様で概括することは不可能だが,これまでに触れた以外のおもなものを,次に地域ごとに略述する。 上に述べたコンゴなど中部アフリカのバントゥー系農耕民の諸王国のほか,東アフリカの大湖地方には,北方から来たナイル系牧畜民が,13~15世紀ころバントゥー系農耕民を支配して形成したキタラ帝国があったと伝えられる。ブニョロ,アンコーレ,ブガンダ(いずれも現,ウガンダ),ルアンダ(現,ルワンダ)等,大部分19世紀のヨーロッパによる植民地支配まで存続した国家群は,キタラ帝国の後裔であるといわれる。…

※「キタラ帝国」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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