Vungu

Quality 0.50 · 2 views · Updated 2 months ago

Historic state in Mayombe

title: "Vungu" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["city-states"] description: "Historic state in Mayombe" topic_path: "general/city-states" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vungu" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Historic state in Mayombe ::

The kingdom of Vungu or Bungu was a historic state located in Mayombe (between the present-day Republic of Congo and the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo). In the 13th century it led a confederation of itself, Ngoyo, and Kakongo. It neighboured the confederations of Mpemba and Seven Kingdoms of Kongo dia Nlaza. It is thought to be the origin of the Kingdom of Kongo.

History

It is not known for sure how old Vungu was or when it was founded. The first documentary mention of it comes in a letter written by Afonso I, the king of Kongo in 1535, in which he lists "JBungu" among other places over which he ruled as king. Traditions collected in the Kongo court and written up by the Jesuit priest Mateus Cardoso in 1624 cite "Bungu" as the place where the first king of Kongo ruled before crossing the Congo River to conquer Kongo. By the 1620s after the Jaga were expelled from Kongo, they had moved north, allied Loango, and occupied Vungu.

References

References

  1. Jan Vansina, ''Notes sur l'origine du royaume de Kongo'', The Journal of African History, 1963, Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 33-38
  2. Louis Jadin, ''Relations sur le Congo et l'Angola tirées des Archives de la Compagnie de Jésus 1621-1631'', Academia Belgica, 1968, p. 392
  3. (2020). "The Development of States in West Central Africa to 1540". Cambridge University Press.
  4. Afonso I to the Pope Paulo III, 21 February 1535 in Antonio Brasio, ed. ''Monumenta Missionaria Africana'' (15 vols, Lisbon 1952-88) 2: 38.
  5. [Mateus Cardoso] ''Historia do Reino de Congo (1624)'' ed. Antonio Brasio (Lisbon, 1969)
  6. Vansina, Jan. (1973). "The Tio kingdom of the Middle Congo, 1880-1892". London, New York, Oxford University Press for the International African Institute.

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::

city-states