Two major major empires claiming Luba descent were the Lunda Empire and Maravi Empire.

The name Malawi is thought to derive from the word Maravi.

Maravi is thought to mean " rays of light " and may have come from the sight of many kilns lighting up the night sky.

The decline of the Maravi Empire resulted from the entrance of two powerful groups into the region of Malawi.

The remaining members of the Maravi Empire, however, were nearly wiped out in attacks from both sides.

Malawi derives its name from the Maravi, a Bantu people who came from the southern Congo about 600 years ago.

Also, the dance arrangements were an identical cover from the version of " Llorando se fue " recorded by the Peruvian group Cuarteto Continental and produced by Alberto Maravi.

The present-day name " Malawi " is said to derive from " Maravi " which itself means " fire flames ".

Now Kaoma's " Lambada " song is credited to the Hermosa brothers ( authors ), Márcia Ferreira ( translation ), José Ari ( translation ), and Alberto Maravi ( original producer ).

It was Banda himself who chose the name " Malawi " for the former Nyasaland ; he had seen it on an old French map as the name of a " Lake Maravi " in the land of the Bororos, and liked the sound and appearance of the word as " Malawi ".

The Maravi connected middle Africa to the east coastal trade, with Swahili Kilwa.

By the 17th century, the Maravi Empire encompassed all the area between Lake Malawi and the mouth of the Zambezi River.

The Maravi Empire did not long survive the death of Mzura.

The region was once part of the Maravi Empire.

The people of the Maravi Empire were iron workers.

A dynasty known as the Maravi Empire was founded by the Amaravi people in the late 15th century.

Eventually encompassing most of modern Malawi, as well as parts of modern day Mozambique and Zambia, the Maravi Empire began on the southwestern shores of Lake Malawi.

The empire began to decline during the early 18th century when fighting among the sub-chiefs and the burgeoning slave trade weakened the Maravi Empire's authority.

Initially the Maravi Empire's economy was largely dependent on agriculture, the majority being the production of millet and sorghum.

It was during the Maravi Empire, some time during the 16th century, that Europeans first came into contact with the people of Malawi.

Under the Maravi Empire, the Chewa had access to the coast of modern day Mozambique.

Trade was enhanced by the common language of Chewa which was spoken throughout the Maravi Empire.

The Angoni adopted Shaka's military tactics to subdue the lesser tribes, including the Maravi, they found along their way.

On reaching the area north of Lake Malawi, the Maravi divided.

Maravi Kingdom at its greater extent in the 17th century.

Maravi was a state established by the Bantu Chewa people, descendants of the Amaravi, in the area of Lake Malawi, in present-day Malawi, in the 16th century.

In the 19th century, the state declined and the Maravi were frequently raided by their neighbors the Yao and captured for sale as slaves.

Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.

Confirmation is afforded by English and Danish traditions relating to two kings named Wermund and Offa of Angel, from whom the Mercian royal family claimed descent and whose exploits are connected with Angeln, Schleswig, and Rendsburg.

Danish tradition has preserved record of two governors of Schleswig, father and son, in their service, Frowinus ( Freawine ) and Wigo ( Wig ), from whom the royal family of Wessex claimed descent.

Clausewitz's family claimed descent from the Barons of Clausewitz in Upper Silesia, which was eventually confirmed, but now is doubted by scholars.

Defoe later added the aristocratic-sounding " De " to his name and on occasion claimed descent from the family of De Beau Faux.

The dynasty claimed descent from Woden via Seaxnēat.

* Imperial Prince Sadasumi ( 貞純親王 ) ( 873 – 916 ) – father of Minamoto no Tsunemoto ( 源経基 ), founder of the Seiwa Genji, from whom the Kamakura shogunate and the Ashikaga shogunate were both descended, as well as from whom the Tokugawa shogunate claimed descent

Some monarchs even claimed divine ancestry, such as Egyptian pharaohs and Sapa Incas, who claimed descent from their respective sun gods and often maintained this bloodline by practicing incestuous marriage.

Numerous states claimed descent from the Lunda.

The Imbangala of inland Angola claimed descent from a founder, Kinguri, brother of Queen Rweej, who could not tolerate the rule of mulopwe Tshibunda.

Caesar was born into a patrician family, the gens Julia, which claimed descent from Iulus, son of the legendary Trojan prince Aeneas, supposedly the son of the goddess Venus.

Titus Flavius Josephus ( 37 – 100 ), also called Joseph ben Matityahu ( Biblical Hebrew: יוסף בן מתתיהו, Yosef ben Matityahu ), was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer who was born in Jerusalem-then part of Roman Judea-to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry.

Dimitrije Tucović had earlier claimed that he was of Albanian descent.

Kenneth's undisputed legacy was to produce a dynasty of rulers who claimed descent from him and was the founder of the dynasty which ruled Scotland for much of the medieval period.

* The Luigne, a people who inhabited Counties Meath and Sligo, claimed descent from him.

In post – Revolutionary Russia, Stalinism ( Socialism in one country ) and Trotskyism ( Permanent world revolution ) were the principal philosophies of Communism that claimed legitimate ideological descent from Leninism ' thus, within the Communist Party, each ideological faction denied the political legitimacy of the opposing faction.

" Fujiwara " was the lineage from which Musashi claimed nominal descent.

He prided himself on his ancient Etruscan lineage, and claimed descent from the princely house of the Cilnii, who excited the jealousy of their townsmen by their preponderant wealth and influence at Arretium in the 4th century BC.

He circulated copies of the historian Gaius Cornelius Tacitus ' work, which was barely read at the time, and so we perhaps have him to thank for the partial survival of Tacitus ' work ; however, modern historiography rejects his claimed descent from the historian as forgery.

The Gorkhali claimed descent from the Hindu Rajputs and Brahmins of Northern India, who entered modern Nepal from the west.

Thus, Nero had as his paternal grandmother Antonia Maior, and also claimed more remote descent from Antonia Minor as a great-grandson — later grandson after Claudius adopted him.

The onlooker with his staff, could be Aeneas, a hero of the Trojan Wars who saved his father by carrying over his back ( hence his hunched position, and his Trojan beard ) and who is believed to have founded Rome, and from whom the Julian clan, thus Julius Caesar and Attia, claimed descent, witnessing the conception of Rome's future savior as an Empire, and the greatest of all the Emperors.

The Trojan origins of Rome became particularly important in the propaganda of Julius Caesar, whose family claimed descent from Venus through Aeneas's son Iulus ( hence the Latin gens name Iulius ), and during the reign of Augustus ; see for instance the Tabulae Iliacae and the " Troy Game " presented frequently by the Julio-Claudian dynasty.