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Kingdom of Dagbon

1400 – 1900
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Dagomba kingdom of northern Ghana founded by the Mole-Dagbani migrations.

The Kingdom of Dagbon was partitioned between Britain and Germany in 1899 and incorporated into the British Gold Coast protectorate and German Togoland; the Northern Territories became a British protectorate in 1901; the paramount chieftaincy (Ya-Na) survived colonialism and continues as a traditional institution within modern Ghana.

Borders in 1821 · drawn from 7 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 7 border frames for Kingdom of Dagbon — the shape you scrub through changes in 1400 · 1590 · 1683 · 1701 · 1749 · 1799 · 1821.

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