List Of Rulers Of Kongo
Matamba
Ndongo
Kongo
Imbangala
Lunda Empire
Baixa de Kassanje
Mbwila
Ngoyo
Portuguese West Africa
Republic of Angola
This is a list of the rulers of the Kingdom of Kongo known commonly as the Manikongos (KiKongo: Mwenekongo). Mwene (plural: Awene) in Kikongo meant a person holding authority, particularly judicial authority, derived from the root -wene which meant, by the sixteenth century at least, territory over which jurisdiction was held. The ruler of Kongo was the most powerful mwene in the region who the Portuguese regarded as the king (in Kikongo ntinu king upon their arrival in 1483.
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