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Kampala Hill is bordered by Makerere to the north, Nakasero to the east, Mengo to the south and Namirembe to the west. When calculating distances between Kampala and other places, Kampala Hill is often taken as the starting point. The coordinates of the hill are:0°18'55.0"N, 32°34'07.0"E (Latitude: 0.315278; Longitude: 32.568611). [1]
The Battle of Kampala Hill was fought between Catholics and Protestants on 24 January 1892 at Kampala Hill in what is now Uganda. [ 1 ] Frederick Lugard had been appointed Military Administrator of Uganda by the British East Africa Company , following the Anglo-German treaty of 1890 . [ 2 ]
Kampala was originally built on seven hills, but it has expanded to cover more than the original seven hills. The original seven hills are: Old Kampala Hill on which Fort Lugard was located, the first seat of the British colonial authorities in colonial Uganda.
The hill commands expansive views of the city towards the north and the west. To the east and the south the predominant view is that of nearby Lake Victoria . Prior to Uganda's Independence in 1962 and through the 1960s and 1970s, Muyenga was an upscale residential area, on account of the excellent views and cool breezes.
Namirembe Hill - Adjacent to and immediately northwest of Mengo Hill. It is the location of St. Paul's Cathedral, the most prominent Anglican place of worship in Buganda; Lubaga Hill - Immediately west of Mengo. The seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kampala. Location of St. Mary's Cathedral Rubaga, built between 1912 and 1925.
Nsambya Hill is one of the seven original hills on which the city of Kampala was built. The seven original hills are: Nsambya, Kibuli, Nakasero, Mengo, Old Kampala, Namirembe and Lubaga. [6] Nsambya was occupied by the Mill Hill Fathers, led by Bishop Henry Hanlon, starting in 1895. The infrastructure that they set up on the hill includes a ...
Makerere (/ m ə ˈ k ɛr ər i / mə-KERR-ər-ee) [1] is a neighborhood in the city of Kampala, Uganda's capital city. The name also applies to the hill on which this neighborhood is perched; one of the original seven hills that constituted Kampala at the time of its founding, in the early 1900s.
The museum started in a small Sikh temple at Fort Lugard on Old Kampala Hill. Between the 1920s and 1940s, archaeology and paleontological surveys and excavations were conducted by Church Hill, E. J. Wayland, Bishop J. Wilson, P. L. Shinnie, E. Lanning, and several others, who collected a significant number of artifacts to boost the museum.