Tippu Tip's state
Sultanate of Utetera | |||||||
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| 1860–1894 | |||||||
Tippu Tip's State in relation to Zanzibar. | |||||||
| Capital | Kasongo | ||||||
| Common languages | Arabic, Swahili | ||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||
| Sultan | |||||||
• 1860–1887 | Tippu Tip | ||||||
• 1887–1893 | Sefu bin Hamid | ||||||
| History | |||||||
• Established | 1860 | ||||||
• Tippu Tip appointed as governor | 1887 | ||||||
• Collapse of the state due to Congo Arab war | 1894 | ||||||
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The Sultanate of Utetera (1860–1894), also referred as Tippu Tip's state, was an Arab sultanate established in eastern Africa. It was a 19th-century short-lived state ruled by the infamous Swahili slave trader Tippu Tip (Hamad al Murjebi) and his son Sefu. The capital of the state was the town of Kasongo, located in modern Maniema Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Tippu Tip's controlled territory reached as far to eastern Kasai and to Aruwimi Basin in the west.