Machame
Kingdom of Machame Isarile ya Machame (Kimachame) | |||||||||
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| c.1800s–1962 | |||||||||
Map of Machame Kingdom and Masama c1890s | |||||||||
| Status | Kingdom | ||||||||
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| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Mangi (King) | |||||||||
• c.late 1600's | Mangi Ntemi s/o Kimaro (Established the territory's identity as Machame/Mashami) | ||||||||
• c.early 1700's | Mangi Kombe I (Kombe Msu) | ||||||||
• c.mid 1700's | Mangi (Kiwarya) | ||||||||
• c.late 1700's | Mangi Kombe II (Kombe mdu) | ||||||||
• c.1810-1830's | Mangi Rengua | ||||||||
• c.1842-1850s | Mangi Mamkinga | ||||||||
• c.1855-1880 | Mangi Ndesserua | ||||||||
• c.1886-1889 | Mangi (de facto, not official)Ngamini | ||||||||
• 1890-1901 | Mangi Shangali | ||||||||
• 1901-1917 | Mangi Ngulelo | ||||||||
• 1917 | Interim (Joseph Merinyo, official from Old Moshi) | ||||||||
• 1918-1921 | Mangi Shangali, 2nd term | ||||||||
• 1922-1946 | Mangi Abdiel Shangali | ||||||||
• 1946-1962 | Mangi Gilead Shangali | ||||||||
| Historical era | |||||||||
| c.1800s | |||||||||
| 6 December 1962 | |||||||||
• Formal abdication | 6 December 1962 | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| 1890s | 49.41 km2 (19.08 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1880s | ~80,000 | ||||||||
• 1900s | ~70,000 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Tanzania | ||||||||
Area and population not including colonial possessions | |||||||||
| Person | Mmachame |
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| People | Wamachame |
| Language | Kimachame |
| Country | Umachame |
Machame or Kingdom of Machame (Isarile ya Mashame in Kichagga; Ufalme wa Machame in Swahili) was a historic sovereign Chagga state located in modern day Machame Kaskazini ward in Hai District of Kilimanjaro Region in Tanzania. Historically, the Machame kingdom was in 1889 referred by Hans Meyer as a great African giant, the kingdom was also the largest and most populous of all the Chagga sovereign states on Kilimanjaro, whose most powerful ruler Mangi Rengua as early as 1849 was reckoned as a giant African king with influence extending throughout all Chagga states except Rombo.