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  1. In African history, a series of disturbances
  2. in the early 19th century among communities
  3. in what is today the eastern part of South
  4. Africa. They arose when chief Shaka conquered
  5. the Nguni peoples between the Tugela and
  6. Pongola rivers, then created by conquest a
  7. centralized, militaristic Zulu kingdom from
  8. several communities, resulting in large-scale
  9. displacement of people.
  10.