Gungunhana

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Gungunhana when captured by the Portuguese colonial army (December, 1895).
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Gungunhana when captured by the Portuguese colonial army (December, 1895).

Gungunhana (1850-1906), also spelt Gungunyana, Ngungunhane or Gungunyane, was the king of Gaza (now in Mozambique) from 1885 to 1895. A vassal of the Portuguese king, he latter rebelled and was defeated and imprisoned by the Portuguese Army, lead by Joaquim Mouzinho de Albuquerque. He was exiled to Lisbon and then to the island of Terceira, in the Azores, were he converted to Catholicism and lived until his death.

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