Daular Ashanti

Daular Ashanti
Wuri
5°27′N 0°58′W / 5.45°N 0.97°W / 5.45; -0.97
Babban birni	Kumasi
Yawan mutane
Faɗi	3,000,000 (1874)
• Yawan mutane	11.58 mazaunan/km²
Labarin ƙasa
Yawan fili	259,000 km²
Bayanan tarihi
Ƙirƙira	1670
Rushewa	1902
Tsarin Siyasa
Tsarin gwamnati	absolute monarchy (en)

Daular Asante ( Asante Twi : Asanteman ) ta kasance masarauta akan babba akan wasu masarauta daga shekarar 1701 zuwa 1957, a cikin kasar ta Ghana ta yanzu . Ta fadada daga Ashanti ta hada da Yankin Brong-Ahafo, Yankin Tsakiya, Yankin Gabas da Yammacin Ghana na yanzu da kuma wasu yankuna na Ivory Coast da Togo . Dangane da ƙarfin soja na masarautar, wadata, gine-gine, tsarin sarauta da al'adu, masarautar Ashanti an yi nazari mai yawa kuma tana da littattafai da Turawa, musamman marubutan Burtaniya suka rubuta fiye da kowane al'adun asali na Sahar hirka . ^[1]

Farawa a ƙarshen karni na 17, da Ashanti sarki Osei Tutu ( c. 1695 – 1717) da mai ba shi shawara Okomfo Anokye sun kafa Masarautar Ashanti, tare da kuma Zinariyar ta Asante a matsayin wata alama ta haɗin kai. Osei Tutu ya lura da fadada yankin Ashanti da yawa, gina sojoji ta hanyar gabatar da sabuwar kungiyar da kuma mayar da rundunar da ta dace da masarauta zuwa injin fada. ^[1] A cikin shekarar 1701, sojojin Ashanti sun ci Denkyira da yaƙi, suna ba Ashanti damar zuwa Tekun Gini da kasuwancin Tekun Atlantika tare da Turawa, musamman Dutch . Tattalin arzikin Daular Ashanti ya ta'allaka ne akan kasuwancin zinare da bayi. Sojojin sun kasance kayan aiki mai inganci don sayan kamammun.

Masarautar Ashanti ta yi yaƙe-yaƙe da yawa tare da masarautun maƙwabta da ƙananan kabilu masu tsari kamar Fante . Ashanti ta ci nasarar mamaye Masarautar Birtaniyya a farkon biyun farkon yaƙe-yaƙe Anglo-Ashanti huɗu, inda suka kashe janar na sojan Burtaniya Sir Charles MacCarthy kuma suka riƙe ƙwoƙwan kansa a matsayin kofin shan giya mai zinare a shekarar 1824. Saboda bunkasar Burtaniya game da fasahar makamai, kone-kone da kwasar babban birnin Kumasi da shan kashi na ƙarshe a Yaƙin Anglo-Ashanti na biyar, masarautar Ashanti ta zama wani ɓangare na mulkin mallakar Gold Coast a ranar 1 ga watan Janairu, shekarar 1902.

A yau, Masarautar Ashanti ta wanzu a matsayinta na mai kiyaye kundin tsarin mulki, ƙasa mai zaman kanta tare da Jamhuriyar Ghana. Sarkin masarautar Ashanti na yanzu shine Otumfuo Osei Tutu II Asantehene . Masarautar Ashanti gida ce ga Tafkin Bosumtwi, tafkin ƙasar ta Ghana kaɗai. Kudaden da jihar ke samu ta fuskar tattalin arziki ya samo asali ne daga kasuwancin gwal, koko, goro da kuma noma . ^[2]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Collins and Burns (2007), p. 140.
2. ↑ Collins and Burns (2007), p. 139.