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There have been a number of historical African states of varying size and influence: *Iron Age empires of North Africa *Ancient Somali city states on the Berber coast. *Medieval (8th to 13th century) Islamic empires (caliphates) in North Africa and the Horn of Africa *Medieval and modern Somali states. *The medieval Sahelian kingdoms *The Ethiopian Empire is notable as an empire in continuous existence from the 13th to the 20th centuries. *Empires of the 15th to 19th centuries. * *Islamic sultanates of the Sudan and the Horn of Africa * *Kingdoms of West Africa succeeding the Sahelian kingdoms * *Kingdoms of Central and Southern Africa such as the Kongo Kingdom and the Mutapa Empire. ==Comparison== Vansina (1962) discusses the classification of Sub-Saharan African kingdoms, mostly of Central, South and East Africa, with some additional data on West African (Sahelian) kingdoms distinguishing five types, by decreasing centralization of power: #despotic kingdoms: kingdoms where the king controls the internal and external affairs directly. Examples are Ruanda, Nkore, Soga and Kongo in the 16th century #regal kingdoms: kingdoms where the king controls the external affairs directly, and the internal affairs via a system of overseers. The king and his chiefs belong to the same religion or group. #incorporative kingdoms: kingdoms where the king only controls only the external affairs with no permanent administrative links between him and the chiefs of the provinces. The hereditary chiefdoms of the provinces were left undisturbed after conquest. Examples are the Bamileke, Lunda, Luba, Lozi. #aristocratic kingdoms: the only link between central authority and the provinces is payment of tribute. These kingdoms are morphologically intermediate between regal kingdoms and federations. This type is rather common in Africa, examples including the Kongo of the 17th century, the Cazembe, Luapula, Kuba, Ngonde, Mlanje, Ha, Zinza and Chagga states of the 18th century #federations such as the Ashanti Union. kingdoms where the external affairs are regulated by a council of elders headed by the king, who is simply ''primus inter pares''. The Islamic empires of North and Northeast Africa do not fall into this categorization and should be discussed as part of the Muslim world. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of kingdoms in pre-colonial Africa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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