The Asante Empire (Asante Twi: Asanteman), also known as the Ashanti Empire, was an Akan state that lasted from 1701 to 1901, in what is now modern-day...
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The Anglo-Ashanti wars were a series of five conflicts that took place between 1824 and 1900 between the Ashanti Empire—in the Akan interior of the Gold...
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Asante people (redirect from Ashantis)
language. The Asante people developed the Ashanti Empire, along the Lake Volta and Gulf of Guinea. The empire was founded in 1670, and the capital Kumase...
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List of rulers of Asante (redirect from King of the Ashanti)
the monarch of the historical Ashanti Empire as well as the ceremonial ruler of the Ashanti people today. The Ashanti royal house traces its line to...
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The Ashanti–Fante War (1806–1807) was a war fought between the Ashanti Empire and the Fante Confederacy in the region of what is currently the Republic...
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Look up Ashanti in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ashanti may refer to: Ashanti people, an ethnic group in West Africa Ashanti Empire, a pre-colonial...
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Kumasi (redirect from Kumasi Ashantis)
the commercial, industrial, and cultural capital of the historical Ashanti Empire. Kumasi is approximately 500 kilometres (300 mi) north of the Equator...
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Ashanti was a British Crown Colony in West Africa from 1902 until its independence as part of the dominion named Ghana in 1957. After several prior wars...
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systems after 1900 Anglo-Ashanti wars Ashanti–Fante War Ga-Fante War Impi Katamanso War Political systems of the Asante Empire Raugh (2004), p. 29 "News...
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Douglas. Ashanti's mother named her after the Ashanti Empire in Ghana; in this nation, women had power and influence, and Tina wanted Ashanti to follow...
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War of the Golden Stool (redirect from Ashanti Uprising)
the series of conflicts between the United Kingdom and the Ashanti Empire (later Ashanti Region), an autonomous state in West Africa that fractiously...
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History of Kumasi (section Ashanti Empire)
capital of the Ashanti Empire. Although various oral sources differ on the origin of Kumasi, majority agree it emerged as the capital of Ashanti under Osei...
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Bureaucracy (section Ashanti Empire)
Ashanti Empire was built upon a sophisticated bureaucracy in Kumasi, with separate ministries which saw to the handling of state affairs. Ashanti's Foreign...
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Political history of Ghana (section Ashanti Empire)
were centralized states, Non-centralized groups and Theocracies. The Ashanti Empire was created from a confederacy of several chiefdoms and united as a...
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Okomfo Anokye (category People from the Ashanti Empire)
the first priest (Okomfo) of the Ashanti Empire. Anokye is known for his participation in the expansion of the empire. He was also the codifier of the...
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The Ashanti–Akim–Akwapim War, also known as the Ashanti Invasion of the Gold Coast, was the expansion of West African Empire of Ashanti against the alliance...
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List of conflicts in Ghana (section Ashanti Empire)
– c. 1701 Independence of the Ashanti Empire 1701 Battle of Feyiase c. 1675 – c. 1701 Independence of the Ashanti Empire 1701 Battle of Feyiase 1652–1784...
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Yaa Asantewaa (category Ashanti independence activists)
October 17, 1840 – October 17, 1921) was the Queen Mother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Empire, now part of modern-day Ghana. She was appointed by her brother Nana...
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Majesty the King of the Ashanti (or National Emblem of Ashanti) is the national emblem of the Ashanti nation, adopted by the Ashanti King Asantehene Osei...
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(1966) Afosa, Kwame (1985). "Financial Administration of the ancient Ashanti Empire". The Accounting Historians Journal. 12 (2): 109–115. doi:10.2308/0148-4184...
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Osei Kwadwo was the 4th Asantehene of the Ashanti Empire who reigned from 1764 to 1777. Osei Kwadwo was elected in replacement of Kusi Obodom who was removed...
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century. The Ashanti Empire and other Akan kingdoms in the south emerged over the centuries. Beginning in the 15th century, the Portuguese Empire, followed...
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Prempeh I (category People from the Ashanti Empire)
of the Ashanti Empire and the Oyoko Abohyen Dynasty. King Prempeh I ruled from March 26, 1888 until his death in 1931, and fought an Ashanti war against...
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Ouémé Valley. Ashanti Empire (1701–1894), a pre-colonial Akan West African state of what is now the Ashanti Region in Ghana. The empire stretched from...
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Umbrella (section Ashanti Empire)
over the figure of a god carried in procession. The exact date when the Ashanti began using umbrellas is uncertain. However, in the 1800s, the Amanhene...
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century, the Ashanti Empire emerged, and under the leadership of King Osei Tutu, defeated the Adansi and annexed them into the Ashanti Empire. The three...
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Denkyira (category Ashanti Empire)
Denkyira at the Battle of Feyiase, and Denkyira became a tributary to the Ashanti Empire. This was led by Ntim Gyakari the then Denkyirahene. In 1868 Denkyira...
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Ashanti (also called Ashanti, Land of No Mercy) is a 1979 action adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov...
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Several empires in human history have been contenders for the largest of all time, depending on definition and mode of measurement. Possible ways of measuring...
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Ga–Fante War (category Wars involving the Ashanti Empire)
The Ga–Fante War in 1811 was a war fought by the Ashanti Empire. The war was started when an Ashanti ally started a war against the Fante Confederacy...
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