Polity · 1440 CE – 1743 CE
Kingdom of Kongo
- Peak recorded area
- 131,583 km²
- 1440 CE
- Rulers on record
- 32
- from 1470 CE
Overview
The Kingdom of Kongo was a kingdom in Central Africa. It was located in present-day northern Angola, the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Gabon and the Republic of the Congo. At its greatest extent it reached from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Kwango River in the east, and from the Congo River in the north to the Kwanza River in the south.
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Territory
3 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
Rulers
32 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.
- João I of KongoManikongo1470 CE – 1506 CE
- Afonso I of KongoManikongo1509 CE – 1543 CE
- Peter I of KongoManikongo1543 CE – 1545 CE
- Diogo I Nkumbi a MpudiManikongo1545 CE – 1561 CE
- Francisco I of KongoManikongo1545 CE
- Afonso II of KongoManikongo1561 CE
- Bernardo I of KongoManikongo1561 CE – 1566 CE
- Henrique I of KongoManikongo1566 CE – 1567 CE
- Álvaro I of KongoManikongo1567 CE – 1587 CE
- Álvaro II of KongoManikongo1587 CE – 1614 CE
- Bernardo II of KongoManikongo1614 CE – 1615 CE
- Álvaro III of KongoManikongo1615 CE – 1622 CE
- Pedro II of KongoManikongo1622 CE – 1624 CE
- Garcia I of KongoManikongo1624 CE – 1626 CE
- Ambrósio I of KongoManikongo1626 CE – 1631 CE
- Álvaro IV of KongoManikongo1631 CE – 1636 CE
- Álvaro V of KongoManikongo1636 CE
- Álvaro VI of KongoManikongo1636 CE – 1641 CE
- Garcia II of KongoManikongo1641 CE – 1660 CE
- Anthony I of KongoManikongo1660 CE – 1665 CE
- Afonso II of Kongo and NkondoManikongo1665 CE
- Álvaro VII of KongoManikongo1665 CE – 1666 CE
- Álvaro VIII of KongoManikongo1666 CE – 1669 CE
- Álvaro IX of KongoManikongo1669 CE – 1670 CE
- Peter III of KongoManikongo1669 CE
- Rafael I of KongoManikongo1670 CE – 1674 CE
- Sébastien Ier du KongoManikongo1670 CE
- Afonso of KongoManikongo1673 CE – 1674 CE
- Daniel I of KongoManikongo1674 CE – 1678 CE
- João II of LembaManikongo1680 CE – 1716 CE
- Peter IV of KongoManikongo1696 CE – 1718 CE
- Manuel II du KongoManikongo1718 CE – 1743 CE
Language & currency
- Currency
- Shell money
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
Wikipedia contributors. Article lead sections, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Kingdom of Kongo is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.