State · 1585 – 1889
Luba Empire
A state of 1585 – 1889 — 304 years in sub-Saharan Africa. The atlas records 1 thing within it — works and ideas 1. Its line of rulers holds 1 person. Its own article says it was partitioned.
- Wikidata's English label: Kingdom of Baluba.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 304 years
- 1585 – 1889
- Rulers
- 1
- the muLopwe
- Within it
- 1
- recorded row
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
How it ended, as its article says
Partitioned, 1889. Read from the article's section “Decline” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.
In 1889 it was split in two by a succession dispute, ending the unified state, and later joined the Congo Free State.
One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ilunga Sungu | 1780 – 1810 | 30 years | ending not on record |
1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1780 – 1810. Only 30 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1800 – 18991 row
- Lake Bangweulu · discovery · 1868
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood304 years
stood longer than 74% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record1
has more rulers on record than 13% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1555 – 1919, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1737, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1768252 (CC0) · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.