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Kingdom of Koya

1450–1898
1990–Present
Flag of Koye
Kingdom of Koya flag
Status State union
Capital Robertsport
Common languages English
Religion
Budhism Protestant, later also Christianity and islam
Government Monarchy
• 1450-1515 (first king)
King Niger(Portaguese translation) King Negro
• 1618–1668 (signed King James agreement to the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the American colonies)
King Eliab Bai ll (from Kpelle King of Koya)
• 1840–1870
King Moribu Kindo Bai (from AfricanAmericans King of Koya)
Legislature Federal republic of Liberia
History  
• Established
1450
• Sold Western Kingdom of Koya (Sierra leon)
1775
• Federal republic of Liberia colony
1868
• ended
1898
• Reestablished
1990
• State union
Present
Area
2019 5,162 km2 (1,993 sq mi)
Population
• 2019
200,000
Currency
Preceded by
Succeeded by
African American
Kru people
Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate
Liberia
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The Republic of The Kingdom of Koya is a monarchy history founded on the information given by historical documents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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