Maravi Confederacy

c. 1450 – c. 1867 CE · about 417 years approximate dates

The Maravi Empire or Confederacy was a Chewa polity in central and southern Malawi, parts of Mozambique and eastern Zambia, from at least the early 15th century to the mid-19th century. In the 17th century it reached from the Luangwa River to the Zambezi. Slave raids by Yao chiefs weakened it, and the last Kalonga, Sosola, died in battle in the late 1860s.