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Bunyoro

Index Bunyoro

Bunyoro is a kingdom in Western Uganda. [1]

74 relations: African Great Lakes, Ankole, Association of the Representatives of Bunyoro-Kitara, Baganda, Banana, Big-game hunting, British Empire, Buddu, Buganda, Buliisa District, Bunyoro, Bunyoro sub-region, Busoga, Cassava, Castration, Christian, Coffee, Constitutional monarchy, Cotton, Crocodile, East Africa, Elephant, Empire of Kitara, Farmer, Gisu people, Great Britain, Hoima, Idi Amin, Indian Ocean, Isingoma Labongo Rukidi, Ivory, Ivory trade, Kagadi District, Kakumiro District, Karagwe District, Kenya, Kibaale District, Kibiro, Kiryandongo District, Kooki, Lake Albert (Africa), Leopard, Lion, Masindi, Masindi District, Metallurgy, Millet, Milton Obote, Monarchy, Mparo, Hoima, ..., Nyoro language, Omukama of Bunyoro, Petroleum, Polygamy, Premarital sex, Prime minister, Protectorate, Rice, Ruanda-Urundi, Rwanda, Rwenzururu, Sesame, Seychelles, Solomon Iguru I, Songora, Telephone numbers in Uganda, Tobacco, Tooro Kingdom, Uganda, Ugandan lost counties referendum, 1964, Ugandan shilling, Western Region, Uganda, World War I, Yam (vegetable). Expand index (24 more) »

African Great Lakes

The African Great Lakes (Maziwa Makuu) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift.

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Ankole

Ankole, also referred to as Nkore, was a traditional Bantu kingdom in Uganda.

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Association of the Representatives of Bunyoro-Kitara

The Association of Representatives of the Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom CLBG (ARKBK) is a non-profit charity and NGO in the West-Ugandan kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara.

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Baganda

The Ganda people, or Baganda (endonym: Baganda; singular Muganda), are a Bantu ethnic group native to Buganda, a subnational kingdom within Uganda.

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Banana

A banana is an edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.

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Big-game hunting

Big-game hunting is the hunting of large game, almost always large terrestrial mammals, for meat, other animal by-products (such as horn or bone), trophy or sport.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Buddu

Buddu is a county of the kingdom of Buganda in what is now Uganda.

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Buganda

Buganda is a subnational kingdom within Uganda.

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Buliisa District

Buliisa District is a district in Western Uganda.

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Bunyoro

Bunyoro is a kingdom in Western Uganda.

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Bunyoro sub-region

Bunyoro sub-region is a region in Western Uganda that consists of the following districts.

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Busoga

Busoga is a traditional Bantu kingdom and one of five constitutional monarchies in present-day Uganda.

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Cassava

Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc, yuca, mandioca and Brazilian arrowroot, is a woody shrub native to South America of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae.

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Castration

Castration (also known as gonadectomy) is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which an individual loses use of the testicles.

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Christian

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Coffee

Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, which are the seeds of berries from the Coffea plant.

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Constitutional monarchy

A constitutional monarchy is a form of monarchy in which the sovereign exercises authority in accordance with a written or unwritten constitution.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Crocodile

Crocodiles (subfamily Crocodylinae) or true crocodiles are large aquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.

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East Africa

East Africa or Eastern Africa is the eastern region of the African continent, variably defined by geography.

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Elephant

Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea.

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Empire of Kitara

The Empire of Kitara (Empire of Light), also known as Bunyoro-Kitara, refers specifically to the Kingdom of the Bakitara at the time of its greatest expansion, which had rulership that stretched throughout the Nile valley and beyond.

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Farmer

A farmer (also called an agriculturer) is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials.

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Gisu people

The Gisu people, or Bamasaba people of Elgon, alternately Gishu, Masaba, or Sokwia, are a tribe of the Masaba people of eastern Uganda, closely related to the Bukusu people of Kenya.

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Great Britain

Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.

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Hoima

Hoima is a municipal town in the Western Region of Uganda.

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Idi Amin

Idi Amin Dada (2816 August 2003) was a Ugandan politician and military officer.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).

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Isingoma Labongo Rukidi

Isingoma Labongo Rukidi (about 1500) or Labongo and sometimes Mpuga Rukidi was the first in the line of the Babiito kings of Bunyoro-Kitara, and according to Bunyoro legend the twin brother of Kato Kimera, the first king of Buganda.

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Ivory

Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally elephants') and teeth of animals, that can be used in art or manufacturing.

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Ivory trade

The ivory trade is the commercial, often illegal trade in the ivory tusks of the hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal, mammoth, and most commonly, African and Asian elephants.

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Kagadi District

Kagadi District is a district in the Western Region of Uganda.

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Kakumiro District

Kakumiro District is a district in the Western Region of Uganda.

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Karagwe District

Karagwe is one of the six districts of the Kagera Region of Tanzania.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.

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Kibaale District

Kibaale District, is a district in the Western Region of Uganda.

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Kibiro

Kibiro is a small fishing village in Uganda that lies on the south-eastern shore of Lake Albert The residents of the village are unable to produce their own agricultural products, and must trade with other communities for most of their necessities.

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Kiryandongo District

Kiryandongo District is a district in Western Uganda.

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Kooki

The Kingdom of Kooki is a traditional Kingdom in the Rakai District of Uganda.

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Lake Albert (Africa)

Lake Albert, also Albert Nyanza and formerly Lake Mobutu Sese Seko, is a lake located in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Leopard

The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five species in the genus Panthera, a member of the Felidae.

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Lion

The lion (Panthera leo) is a species in the cat family (Felidae).

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Masindi

Masindi is a town in the Western Region of Uganda.

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Masindi District

Masindi District is a district in Western Uganda.

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Metallurgy

Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys.

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Millet

Millets (/ˈmɪlɪts/) are a group of highly variable small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food.

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Milton Obote

Apollo Milton Obote (28 December 1925 – 10 October 2005) was a Ugandan political leader who led Uganda to independence in 1962 from British colonial administration.

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Monarchy

A monarchy is a form of government in which a group, generally a family representing a dynasty (aristocracy), embodies the country's national identity and its head, the monarch, exercises the role of sovereignty.

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Mparo, Hoima

Mparo is a village in Hoima District, in the Western Region of Uganda.

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Nyoro language

The Nyoro language (autonym: Runyoro) is a local language of the Nyoro people of Uganda.

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Omukama of Bunyoro

Omukama of Bunyoro is the title given to rulers of the East African kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara.

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Petroleum

Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface.

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Polygamy

Polygamy (from Late Greek πολυγαμία, polygamía, "state of marriage to many spouses") is the practice of marrying multiple spouses.

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Premarital sex

Premarital sex is sexual activity practiced by people before they are married.

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Prime minister

A prime minister is the head of a cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system.

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Protectorate

A protectorate, in its inception adopted by modern international law, is a dependent territory that has been granted local autonomy and some independence while still retaining the suzerainty of a greater sovereign state.

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Rice

Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice).

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Ruanda-Urundi

Ruanda-Urundi (in Dutch also Roeanda-Oeroendi) was a territory in the African Great Lakes region, once part of German East Africa, which was ruled by Belgium between 1916 and 1962.

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Rwanda

Rwanda (U Rwanda), officially the Republic of Rwanda (Repubulika y'u Rwanda; République du Rwanda), is a sovereign state in Central and East Africa and one of the smallest countries on the African mainland.

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Rwenzururu

Rwenzururu is a subnational kingdom in western Uganda, located in the Rwenzori Mountains on the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Sesame

Sesame (Sesamum indicum) is a flowering plant in the genus Sesamum, also called benne.

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Seychelles

Seychelles (French), officially the Republic of Seychelles (République des Seychelles; Creole: Repiblik Sesel), is an archipelago and sovereign state in the Indian Ocean.

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Solomon Iguru I

Omukama Rukirabasaija Agutamba Solomon Gafabusa Iguru I (born 1948) is the 27th Omukama of Bunyoro from 1994 to present.

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Songora

The Songora or Shongora (pl. Basongora, sing. Musongora) also known as "Bacwezi", "Chwezi", Huma or "Bahuma") are a traditionally a pastoralist people of the Great Lakes region of Central Africa located in Western Uganda and Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. They have distinctive customs and speak 'Rusongora' an African language that is originates from Proto-Kordofanian and is similar to Runyankole and Rutoro. The Basongora population has reported as numbering 25,000 in 2015 in Uganda. Some Basongora also live in Eastern Congo. The colonial and neo-colonial governments in Central Africa instituted programs to encourage the Basongora to abandon their traditional lifestyle, and most of the territory traditionally owned by the Songora community has been appropriated for use as national parks or has been settled and occupied by other communities, notably the Batoro and Bakonzo. Also Songora territory has been partitioned into several districts and is distributed across Uganda and Congo. The traditional lifestyle of the Basongora is notable for its adaptation to dry savana and scrublands, as well as mountainous terrain.

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Telephone numbers in Uganda

Until 1999, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda shared a telephone numbering plan, in which subscribers were only required to dial the trunk code, area code and number.

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Tobacco

Tobacco is a product prepared from the leaves of the tobacco plant by curing them.

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Tooro Kingdom

Tooro is one of the five traditional kingdoms located within the borders of Uganda.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda (Jamhuri ya Uganda), is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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Ugandan lost counties referendum, 1964

The lost counties referendum of November 1964 was a local referendum held to decide whether the "lost counties" of Buyaga and Bugangaizi in Uganda (modern day Kibaale District) should continue to be part of the Kingdom of Buganda, be transferred back to the Kingdom of Bunyoro, or be established as a separate district.

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Ugandan shilling

The shilling (sign: USh; code: UGX) is the currency of Uganda.

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Western Region, Uganda

The Western region is one of four regions in the country of Uganda.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Yam (vegetable)

Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunyoro

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