Impi

Impi (vocabulum Zuluanum, 'proelium', 'bellum', 'copias' significans) erant milites exercitus Zuluani, a rege Shaka Zuluano creati.^[1] Legio militum qui impi erant Zuluanice Ibutho appellatur.^[2] Impi praeclara instructione cornuum bubali (vulgo impondo zankomo 'cornua bestiae') contra hostes utebantur.^[1]

Primum telum exercitus Zuluani fuit ipapa, nomen onomatopoetium, ex sono teli in aëre iacti appellatum. Shaka Zuluanus hanc assagaiam mutavit et novum telum creavit. Nova assagaia (Zuluane iklwa) et telum sunt arma principalia impi, cum scutum ngunicum vel isihlangu armamentum pro defensione esset. Aliud scutum Zuluanum est umbumbuluzo, scuto ngunico minus. Scuta Zuluana ex corio vaccarum fiunt.

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• Bellum Ndwandwe-Zuluanum
• Mfecane
• Proelium Ulundense
• Proelium montis Isandlwana