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Ashanti polity
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294899340
APP
2002-02-12
INP
2002-02-12
STA
Approved
UPD
2012-07-20
DUT
Ashanti rijk
IND
1
MIS
BR. ASAR. Ashanti became a British colony in 1902. At Ghana's indpendence in 1957 it became a region called Brong-Ahafo.
PPN
294899340
UDC
340.141.1Asante
SN
ca. 1680- . Location: central Ghana, capital Kumasi, under Osei Tutu, the Asantehene (paramount chief) from 1701 to 1717, the most powerful Akan state.
MRF
321Ashanti
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Asante Kingdom
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