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Kanem‐Bornu Empire
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AbstractPresent for more than 1000 years in the Lake Chad basin, the Kanem‐Bornu (or Kanem‐Borno) Empire was the longest‐lasting empire in the history of Africa. It was created around the 8th century in Kanem on the eastern shores of Lake Chad before shifting to Borno (Bornu) on the western side of the lake during the 13th and 14th centuries. Kanem‐Bornu was a trans‐Saharan empire with possessions in the Fezzan as well as in Bilma; it reached its largest territorial extent in the 16th and 17th centuries before being invaded by a Sudanese warlord in 1893 and colonized by the Europeans at the beginning of the 20th century. Kanem‐Bornu presents four distinguishing features: an enduring state structure, the wealth of its written and oral sources, the early presence of Islam and the importance of the trans‐Saharan trade.
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AbstractPresent for more than 1000 years in the Lake Chad basin, the Kanem‐Bornu (or Kanem‐Borno) Empire was the longest‐lasting empire in the history of Africa.
It was created around the 8th century in Kanem on the eastern shores of Lake Chad before shifting to Borno (Bornu) on the western side of the lake during the 13th and 14th centuries.
Kanem‐Bornu was a trans‐Saharan empire with possessions in the Fezzan as well as in Bilma; it reached its largest territorial extent in the 16th and 17th centuries before being invaded by a Sudanese warlord in 1893 and colonized by the Europeans at the beginning of the 20th century.
Kanem‐Bornu presents four distinguishing features: an enduring state structure, the wealth of its written and oral sources, the early presence of Islam and the importance of the trans‐Saharan trade.
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