Largest of the three confederacies of Fiji's House of Chiefs
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Burebasaga is the largest of the three confederacies that make up Fiji's House of Chiefs, to which some of the Fijian chiefs belong.
Burebasaga is the largest of the three confederacies that make up Fiji's House of Chiefs, to which some of the Fijian chiefs belong. It consists of the...
the Burebasaga Confederacy, one of three traditional chiefly hierarchies. The Roko Tui Dreketi, or Paramount Chief of Rewa, is the head Burebasaga. The...
Fiji is divided administratively into four divisions, which are further subdivided into fourteen provinces. Each province has a provincial council. Fiji...
Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs House of Chiefs Confederacies Burebasaga Kubuna Tovata Rotuman Traditional Leadership Gagaja Sau Fakpure Mua v...
Chief) of the island of Bau. His father, Tanoa Visawaqa, had conquered the Burebasaga Confederacy but never subdued western Fiji. Cakobau controlled most of...
Sawaieke", he later led pushed for the Yasana of Ba to secede from the Burebasaga and Kubuna Confederacies to form their own fourth confederacy under the...
well as the Lau Islands. The Tovata Confederacy, (like the Kubuna and Burebasaga confederacies) is a recent invention. It was conceived in 14 February...
Tui Dreketi, or Paramount Chief of Burebasaga, in 2004. This is considered to be the highest title in the Burebasaga Confederacy, one of three "confederacies"...
because it was thought that as President Ratu Josefa Iloilo was from the Burebasaga and his predecessor, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara from Tovata, the new Vice-President...
is the title of the Paramount Chief of Fiji's Rewa Province and of the Burebasaga Confederacy, to which Rewa belongs. This title is considered the second...
Roko Tui Dreketi, the Paramount Chief of Fiji's Rewa Province and of the Burebasaga Confederacy Roko Tui Namata, the title of the Paramount Chief of the Namata...
public offices. These included Ro Teimumu Kepa, the Paramount Chief of the Burebasaga Confederacy, who was required to relinquish her chairmanship of the Rewa...
in modern Fiji is considered to be the most senior. The other two are Burebasaga (covering the rest of Viti Levu), and Tovata, covering Vanua Levu, Lau...
public offices. These included Ro Teimumu Kepa, the Paramount Chief of the Burebasaga Confederacy, who was required to relinquish her chairmanship of the Rewa...
was Bureta, Rokomautu whose tribe was Verata, Malasiga whose tribe was Burebasaga, Tui Nayavu whose tribe was Batiki, and Daunisai whose tribe was Kabara...
also as Paramount Chief) who had previously defeated the much larger Burebasaga confederacy and succeeded in subduing much of western Fiji. Cakobau, following...
title of Roko Tui Dreketi, the traditional title of the rulers of the Burebasaga Confederacy, which covers the provinces of Rewa, Nadroga-Navosa, Namosi...
Lakeba, Lau), then he/she would be considered from Rewa, which is of the Burebasaga confederacy and Lakeba of the Lau Province, which is of the Tovata confederacy...
Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs House of Chiefs Confederacies Burebasaga Kubuna Tovata Rotuman Traditional Leadership Gagaja Sau Fakpure Mua v...
Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs House of Chiefs Confederacies Burebasaga Kubuna Tovata Rotuman Traditional Leadership Gagaja Sau Fakpure Mua v...
Confederacy) and Ro Teimumu Kepa, the Roko Tui Dreketi (Paramount Chief of the Burebasaga Tribal Confederacy). The Vunivalu of Bau, Paramount Chief of Fiji's third...
Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs House of Chiefs Confederacies Burebasaga Kubuna Tovata Rotuman Traditional Leadership Gagaja Sau Fakpure Mua v...
Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs House of Chiefs Confederacies Burebasaga Kubuna Tovata Rotuman Traditional Leadership Gagaja Sau Fakpure Mua v...
were the dominant consolidated powers at the time being that of Kubuna, Burebasaga and Tovata. With regard to the Rasau while its traditional origins were...
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