Sultanate of Darfur
The Sultanate of Darfur (Arabic: سلطنة دارفور, romanized: Salṭanat al-Dārfūr) was a pre-colonial state in present-day Sudan. It existed from 1603 to 24 October 1874, when it fell to the Sudanese warlord Rabih az-Zubayr, and again from 1898 to 1916, when it was occupied by the British and the Egyptians and was integrated into Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. At its peak in the late 18th and early 19th century it stretched all the way from Darfur in the west to Kordofan and the western banks of the White Nile in the east, giving it the size of present-day Nigeria.
Sultanate of Darfur | |||||||||||||
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| 1603–1874 1898–1916 | |||||||||||||
Map of Darfur in 1914. | |||||||||||||
| Status | Sultanate | ||||||||||||
| Capital | al-Fashir (after 1790) | ||||||||||||
| Common languages | Fur, Arabic | ||||||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Dafurian | ||||||||||||
| Government | Absolute monarchy | ||||||||||||
| Sultan | |||||||||||||
• 1603–1637 | Sulayman Solong | ||||||||||||
• 1898–1916 | Ali Dinar | ||||||||||||
| Historical era | Early Modern Period | ||||||||||||
• Established | 1603 | ||||||||||||
• Conquered by Rabih az-Zubayr | 24 October 1874 | ||||||||||||
• Independence from Mahdist Sudan | 1898 | ||||||||||||
| 1916 | |||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Sudan | ||||||||||||
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