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Ashanti Empire
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former Akan empire centered around modern day Ghana
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Vinony's link graph records 1,027 inbound references to Ashanti Empire, and connects out to Anglo-Ashanti wars, Akyem and Osei Tutu.
The entry is geolocated on the map in landmark.
It is catalogued under topics including 1670 establishments in Africa, 1902 disestablishments in Africa and 1935 establishments in the Gold Coast (British colony).
Vinony links it to 47 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Status
- State union with Ghana
- Capital
- Kumasi
- Common languages
- Asante ( Twi ) ( official ), Hausa , Dyula
- Religion
- Akan religion
- Demonym
- Asantefoɔ
- Government
- Constitutional elective monarchy
- 1670 1717 first
- Osei Tutu
- 1888 1896 13th
- Prempeh I
- 1931 1957 last
- Prempeh II
- 1999 present national state within ghana
- Osei Tutu II
- Legislature
- Asante Kotoko (Council of Kumasi) and the Asantemanhyiamu (National Assembly)
- Earliest evidence of human occupation at
- 700 BCE
- Development of asantemanso as an early u
- 9th century CE
- Adanse amansie region as a proto asante
- 9th-10th century CE
- Part of akani arcania
- 15th–16th centuries CE
- Fragmentation of akani and migration of
- 16th–17th centuries CE
- State union
- Present
- 19th century
- 3,000,000–4,000,000
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- historical country
- Continent
- Africa
- Capital
- Kumasi
- Population
- 3000000
- Area
- 259000
- Form of government
- absolute monarchy
- Image
- Asante map.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ashanti Empire
- topic's main category
- Category:Ashanti Empire
- inception
- 1670-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1902-00-00
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- different from
- Ashanti Region
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part of Ghana Ivory Coast Togo
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 Ghana. It expanded from the Ashanti Region to include most of Ghana and also parts of Ivory Coast and Togo. Due to the empire's military prowess, wealth, architecture, sophisticated hierarchy, trade networks and culture, the Asante Empire has been extensively studied and has more historic records written by European, primarily British, authors than any other indigenous culture of sub-Saharan Africa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ashanti Empire” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.