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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 782 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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UNYORO , called by its See also:

people Bunyoro, a See also:country of See also:east central See also:Africa lying N.W. of the See also:kingdom of Buganda (See also:Uganda) and bounded E. and N. by the See also:Victoria See also:Nile. On the See also:west, Unyoro includes nearly all the eastern shores of See also:Albert See also:Nyanza and a See also:strip of territory—incorporated in Belgian See also:Congo in 1910—west of that See also:lake. In 1896 a See also:British See also:protectorate was established over Unyoro, which now forms the S.W. See also:part of the See also:northern See also:province of the Uganda Protectorate. The limits of Unyoro have varied according to the strength of its rulers; during the 19th See also:century the states of Bunyoro and Buganda appear to have been rivals for the overlordship of the region between the See also:Bahr-el-See also:Jebel and the See also:great lakes. The Banyoro (as its people See also:call themselves) had a certain degree of See also:civilization and were skilled in See also:iron-See also:work, pottery and See also:wood-work. The ruling class is of Hima stock, the Bahima possessing large herds of See also:cattle. The first Europeans to enter the country were J. H. See also:Speke and J. A. See also:Grant, who spent part of 1862 there, the See also:king, Kamurasi, putting many obstacles in the way of the travellers continuing their See also:journey down the Nile. Its next See also:white visitors were See also:Sir See also:Samuel and See also:Lady See also:Baker, who in 1864 discovered the Albert Nyanza.

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time See also:ivory and slave traders, nominally See also:Egyptian subjects, penetrated as far See also:south as Unyoro, and a few years later (1870-74) Baker, as See also:governor-See also:general of the See also:Equatorial Provinces, extended Egyptian See also:influence over the country and placed a See also:garrison at Foweira on the Victoria Nile. He formally annexed Unyoro to the Egyptian dominions at Masindi on the 14th of May 1872. General See also:Gordon, who succeeded Baker, established posts at Masindi and Mruli. With King Kabarega, a son of Kamurasi, the Egyptians had many encounters. Egyptian authority ceased altogether with the withdrawal of Emin See also:Pasha in 1888, but not See also:long after-wards British influence began to be See also:felt in the country. Kabarega in 1891 found himself in conflict with See also:Captain F. D. See also:Lugard, who entered Unyoro froth the south. From this point the See also:history of Unyoro is traced in the See also:article UGANDA. It need only be stated here that in 1899 Kabarega was captured by the British and deported to the See also:Seychelles, and that one of his sons (Yosia, a See also:minor) was subsequently recognized as See also:chief in his See also:place, though with very restricted See also:powers, the province being virtually ad-ministered directly by the British See also:government. Unyoro has played rather an important role in the past (unwritten history of Equatorial Africa as being the region from which the See also:ancient Gala (Hamitic) See also:aristocracy, coming from Nileland, penetrated the forests of See also:Bantu Africa, bringing with them the See also:Neolithic civilization, the use of metals, and the keeping of cattle. Unyoro, though not a large country, is in many ways remarkable.

It is thought to contain See also:

gold in the See also:north and north-east. In the west and south-west are the vast primeval forests of Budonga and Bugoma, containing large chimpanzees and a See also:peculiar sub-See also:species of straight-tusked elephants (only found in Unyoro). See the See also:works of Speke, Grant and Baker; also See also:Colonel Gordon in Central Africa (4th ed., 1885) ; J. F. See also:Cunningham's Uganda and its Peoples (1905) ; and Winston See also:Churchill's My See also:African Journey (1908). (H. H.

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