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Zululand

historical region, South Africa
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Zululand, traditional region in the northeastern section of present-day KwaZulu-Natal (formerly Natal) province, South Africa. It is the home of the Zulu people and site of their 19th-century kingdom. The Zulu, a Nguni people, initially were a small chieftaincy situated near the White Mfolozi River, but they provided the nucleus for the amalgamations of regional chieftaincies into a Zulu kingdom during the 1810s and early 1820s. The nearby Mthethwa confederacy, under its leader, Dingiswayo (reigned 1809–17), had established close links with the Zulu. On Dingiswayo’s death, the Zulu leader Shaka (reigned 1816–28) established his people’s dominance over their neighbours and, ...(100 of 890 words)

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