Ashanti Empire
Ashanti Empire Asanteman (Asante Twi) | |||||||||||||
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 Map of the Ashanti Empire | |||||||||||||
| Status | State union | ||||||||||||
| Capital | Kumasi | ||||||||||||
| Common languages | Ashanti (Twi) (official) | ||||||||||||
| Religion | Initially Akan religion, later also Christianity | ||||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||
• 1670–1717 (first) | Osei Tutu | ||||||||||||
• 1888–1896 (13th) | Prempeh I | ||||||||||||
• 1931–1957 (last) | Prempeh II | ||||||||||||
| Osei Tutu II | |||||||||||||
| Legislature | Asante Kotoko (Council of Kumasi)[1] and the Asantemanhyiamu (National Assembly) | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• | 1701 | ||||||||||||
• Independence from Denkyira | 1701 | ||||||||||||
• Annexed to form a British colony named Ashanti | 1901[2] | ||||||||||||
• Self-rule | 1935 | ||||||||||||
• State union as Ashanti Region with Ghana | 1957 | ||||||||||||
• | Present | ||||||||||||
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| Population | |||||||||||||
• [3] | 3,000,000 | ||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Ghana
Ivory Coast Togo | ||||||||||||
The Asante Empire (Asante Twi:
Ashanti Empire Media
Golden Stool (Sika dwa) in the Ashanti Kingdom, 1935
English officers selecting quarters in the chief's palace at Fomena.
Queen Yaa Asantewaa led her state, Ejisu, in the War of the Golden Stool against the British.
Asante Mountains and Lake Bosumtwi, a natural lake
Golden mask property of Asantehene, Kofi Karikari
Ashanti yam ceremony in the Ashanti Kingdom, 19th century, by Thomas E. Bowdich
British Museum; asante drum, made in Africa, found in the US. See A History of the World in 100 Objects, no. 86
Picture of Ashanti architecture drawn by Thomas Edward Bowdich, with Adinkra symbols on the walls
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Asanteman), today commonly called the Ashanti Empire, was an Akan state that lasted from 1701 to 1901, in what is now modern-day Ghana.[6] It expanded from the Ashanti Region to include most of Ghana and also parts of Ivory Coast and Togo.
- ↑ Edgerton, Robert B. Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred Year War for Africa's Gold Coast. Free Press, 1995.
- ↑ Ashanti Order in Council 1901.
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