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Shaka King of the Zulu Zululand, in modern-day South Africa
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Zululand

historical region, South Africa
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Zululand, traditional region in the northeastern section of present-day KwaZulu-Natal (formerly Natal) province, South Africa. It is the home of the Zulu people and site of their 19th-century kingdom. The Zulu, a Nguni people, initially were a small chieftaincy situated near the White Mfolozi River, but they provided the nucleus for the amalgamations of regional chieftaincies into a Zulu kingdom during the 1810s and early 1820s. The nearby Mthethwa confederacy, under its leader, Dingiswayo (reigned...

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