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Empire of Luba Luba | |||||||||
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14th/15th/16th century–1889 | |||||||||
Capital | Mwibele (today in Haut-Lomami) | ||||||||
Common languages | Kiluba[1] | ||||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
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• c. 1780 – 1810 | Ilunga Sungu | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 14th/15th/16th century | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1889 | ||||||||
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Today part of | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
The Luba Empire or Kingdom of Luba was a pre-colonial Central African state that arose in the marshy grasslands of the Upemba Depression in what is now southern Democratic Republic of Congo.