This article is about the kingdom in Southern Africa. For other and related uses, see Zululand.
Kingdom of Zululand
KwaZulu
1816–1897
Location of the Zulu Kingdom, c. 1890 (red) (borders in flux)
Status
Protectorate of the United Kingdom 1887–1897
Capital
kwaBulawayo; uMgungundlovu; Ulundi
Common languages
isiZulu
Religion
Zulu religion
Government
Monarchy
King
• 1816–1828
Shaka
• 1828–1840
Dingane
• 1840–1856
Mpande
• 1856–1884
Cetshwayo
• 1884–1887
Dinuzulu
History
• Death of Dingiswayo
1818
• Accession of Shaka
1816
• Battle of Gqokli Hill
1818
• Battle of Mhlatuze River
1820
• Battle of Blood River
1838
• Anglo-Zulu War
1879
• British protectorate
1887
• to Natal
1897
Area
1822[1]
207,000 km2 (80,000 sq mi)
Population
• 1828
250,000
Currency
Cattle
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Mtetwa Paramountcy
Natalia Republic
Nieuwe Republiek
Colony of Natal
Today part of
South Africa
The Zulu Kingdom (/ˈzuːluː/ZOO-loo, Zulu: KwaZulu), sometimes referred to as the Zulu Empire or the Kingdom of Zululand, was a monarchy in Southern Africa. During the 1810s, Shaka established a standing army that consolidated rival clans and built a large following which ruled a wide expanse of Southern Africa that extended along the coast of the Indian Ocean from the Tugela River in the south to the Pongola River in the north.
A bitter civil war in the mid-19th century erupted which culminated in the 1856 Battle of Ndondakusuka between the brothers Cetshwayo and Mbuyazi. In 1879, a British force invaded Zululand, beginning the Anglo-Zulu War. After an initial Zulu victory at the Battle of Isandlwana in January, the British regrouped and defeated the Zulus in July during the Battle of Ulundi, ending the war. The area was absorbed into the Colony of Natal and later became part of the Union of South Africa.
^Gluckman, Max (1960). "The Rise of a Zulu Empire". Scientific American. 202 (4): 162. Bibcode:1960SciAm.202d.157G. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0460-157. ISSN 0036-8733. JSTOR 24940454. Retrieved 7 July 2020. By 1822 he had made himself master over 80,000 square miles
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