Bust Kingdom - Bust Kingdom

Japanese: バスト王国 - バストおうこく

A small kingdom of the Sotho (Basuto) people in what is now Lesotho, South Africa, in the 19th century. The Sotho people are said to have descended from Nguni-speaking people who migrated south across the Drakensberg Mountains in the 18th century. In the early 19th century, King Moshoeshoe I (c. 1785-1870) was attacked by King Shaka of the Zulus, and fled with his people to Thaba Bosiu (a flat-topped hill near Maseru), where he used skillful diplomatic tactics to ward off invasions by the Zulus and Matabele.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

19世紀に南アフリカの現在のレソトにあったソトSotho(バストBasuto)族の小王国。ソト族の祖先は18世紀にドラケンスバーグ山脈を越えて南下したヌグニ語系の人々であるといわれる。19世紀初めズールー族のシャカ王の攻撃を受けた王モシュシュ1世Moshoeshoe I(1785ころ‐1870)は，一族を連れてタバ･ボシウ(マセル付近の平らな頂をもつ丘)に逃れ，そこを根拠地に巧みな外交戦術でズールー族やマタベレ族の侵略を回避した。

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