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Kingdom of Koya
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1450–1898 1990–Present |
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Status | State union | ||||||||||||
Capital | Robertsport | ||||||||||||
Common languages | English | ||||||||||||
Religion | Budhism Protestant, later also Christianity and islam | ||||||||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||
• 1450-1515 (first king)
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King Niger(Portaguese translation) King Negro | ||||||||||||
• 1618–1668 (signed King James agreement to the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the American colonies)
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King Eliab Bai ll (from Kpelle King of Koya) | ||||||||||||
• 1840–1870
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King Moribu Kindo Bai (from AfricanAmericans King of Koya) | ||||||||||||
Legislature | Federal republic of Liberia | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
• Established
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1450 | ||||||||||||
• Sold Western Kingdom of Koya (Sierra leon)
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1775 | ||||||||||||
• Federal republic of Liberia colony
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1868 | ||||||||||||
• ended
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1898 | ||||||||||||
• Reestablished
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1990 | ||||||||||||
• State union
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Present | ||||||||||||
Area | |||||||||||||
2019 | 5,162 km2 (1,993 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||||
• 2019
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200,000 | ||||||||||||
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Today part of | Grand Cape Mount County |
The Republic of The Kingdom of Koya is a monarchy history founded on the information given by historical documents
Kingdom of Koya is a subnational kingdom within Liberia. The kingdom of Koya is the African American ethnic group monarchy, Kingdom of Koya is the largest of the traditional kingdoms in present-day Liberia, comprising all of the Grand Cape Mount county.
The Kingdom of Kquoja or Koya or Koya Temne, or the Temne Kingdom (1505–1896), was a pre-colonial African state in the north of present-day Sierra Leone. Its capital was at Cape Mount in what is now modern Liberia.
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