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Ratu Epenisa Cakobau, 13th Vunivalu of Bau since 2023

Turaga na Vunivalu na Tui Kaba, shortened as Vunivalu, is the Paramount Chief of the Kubuna Confederacy of the island of Bau in Fiji. Loosely translated the title means Warlord of Bau or "Root of War".[1] The succession to the title does not follow primogeniture, but the candidate must be a high-ranking member of the Tui Kaba clan.

  1. ^ The Fijians - Page 62, 1908.

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Tanoa Visawaqa

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Fijian Chieftain who held the title 5th Vunivalu of Bau. With Adi Savusavu, one of his nine wives, he was the father of Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau, who succeeded...

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compensation for the attack from Seru Epenisa Cakobau, the Vunivalu of Bau and self-proclaimed Tui Viti (King of Fiji). The first incident that led to the American...

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Epeli Nailatikau I

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the Vunivalu of Bau. He was the eldest son of the first Tui Viti, Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau and his first wife, Adi Litia Samanunu, daughter of the Roko...

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Epenisa Cakobau

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a senior member of the Tui Kaba clan. He is the 13th Vunivalu of Bau. He is the son of former Governor-General of Fiji and Vunivalu Ratu Sir George Cakobau...

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George Cakobau

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reign in the mid-1800s, Ratu Sir George held the traditional titles of Vunivalu of Bau and Tui Levuka and thus was considered by many as Fiji's highest-ranking...

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Kubuna

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Fiji, is the 'Turaga Bale Na Tui Kaba', Vunivalu of Bau. A position that has been vacant since the death of Ratu Sir George Cakobau, a former Governor...

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Roko Tui Bau

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Tui Bau is a vassal chief of the Vunivalu of Bau (the chief of the post-Cakobau enclaves of the Kubuna confederacy). From his seat at the residence of Naicobocobo...

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Tora ni Bau

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and Burebasaga. One of the two Paramount chiefly tribes in the Kubuna Confederacy is the "ToraniBau" the other (Vunivalu of Bau) The first known documented...

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Mara Kapaiwai

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of the Vunivalu of Bau. Ratu Mara's father was Ratu Vuibureta (half brother of Ratu Tanoa Visawaqa) of Bau, who was the son of Ratu Banuve, Vunivalu of...

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Bau District

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Bau District is a district of Tailevu Province, Fiji. It is coextensive with Bau Island, the traditional fiefdom of the Vunivalu of Bau, generally considered...

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Joni Madraiwiwi I

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birth. His mother, Adi Loaloakubou was half-sister of Ratu Cakobau the Vunivalu of Bau and later King of Fiji. Her marriage to Mara Kapaiwai came after she...

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Drua

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launching ceremonies, Wilkes in the 19th century records that when the Vunivalu of Bau Tanoa Visawaqa launched a canoe 10 or more men were slaughtered on...

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Monarchy of Fiji

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Litiana Maopa

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member of two of Fiji's main chiefly houses, those of the Tui Nayau, the paramount chief of the Lau Islands, and the chiefly house of the Vunivalu of Bau the...

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Ratu

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of Bau until the rise of the Tui Kaba clan leader, who exiled all Vusaratu members. They are the heirs of Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau, the Vunivalu of Bau...

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Qaranivalu

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Province of Naitasiri. The Qaranivalu descends from the most senior line of the Vunivalu of Bau, Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau through the Vunivalu's daughter...

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Alifereti Finau Ulugalala

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daughter of the Vunivalu of Bau and self-styled King of Fiji, Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau. He married Adi Ateca Moceiwaqa, the daughter of Ratu Epeli...

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Fiji Native Tribal Congress

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Chief of the Burebasaga Tribal Confederacy). The Vunivalu of Bau, Paramount Chief of Fiji's third Tribal Confederacy, Kubuna, is still in the process of selection...

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Tailevu Province

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chiefly hierarchies in Fiji. Kubuna's Paramount Chief, called the Vunivalu of Bau, is generally considered the most senior such chief in Fiji. The Indigenous...

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Penaia Kadavulevu

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