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  2. Hausa Kingdoms - Wikipedia

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    The Hausa Kingdoms began as seven states founded according to the bayajidda legend by the six sons of Bawo and himself, the son of the hero and Magajiya Daurama, in addition to the hero's son, Biram or Ibrahim, of an earlier marriage. The states included only kingdoms inhabited by Hausa speakers: Daura; Kano; Katsina; Zaria (Zazzau/Zegzeg ...

  3. Bayajidda - Wikipedia

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    According to this theory, the Hausa states would have been founded by Kharijite refugees in the tenth century CE. Elizabeth Isichei , in her work A History of African Societies to 1870 , suggests that Bayajidda's stay in Borno prior to arriving in Hausaland is "perhaps a folk memory of origins on the Borno borderland, or a reflection of Borno ...

  4. List of Shia dynasties - Wikipedia

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    This Wikipedia page provides a list of Shia dynasties throughout history.

  5. Zazzau - Wikipedia

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    This source also makes it one of the seven Hausa Bakwai states. Zazzau's most famous early ruler was Queen (or princess) Amina, who ruled either in the mid-15th or mid-16th centuries, and was held by Muhammed Bello, an early 19th-century Hausa historian and the second Sultan of Sokoto, to have been the first to establish a kingdom among the ...

  6. Monarchies in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Map of Europe showing current monarchies (red) and republics (blue) In the European history, monarchy was the prevalent form of government throughout the Middle Ages, only occasionally competing with communalism, notably in the case of the maritime republics and the Swiss Confederacy.

  7. History of Nigeria (1500–1800) - Wikipedia

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    The history of the territories which since ca. 1900 have been known under the name of Nigeria during the pre-colonial period (16th to 18th centuries) was dominated by several powerful West African kingdoms or empires, such as the Oyo Empire and the Islamic Kanem-Bornu Empire in the northeast, and the Igbo kingdom of Onitsha in the southeast and ...

  8. List of dynasties - Wikipedia

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    For instance, whereas the House of Savoy was founded in AD 1003 in the County of Savoy and maintained its rule until AD 1946 in the Kingdom of Italy, it briefly held the throne of Spain from AD 1870 to AD 1873, and is thus reflected as such in the "Spain" section.

  9. List of former monarchies - Wikipedia

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    Kingdom of Sophene (c. 200 BC–94 BC) Twipra Kingdom (c. 200 BC–1858 AD) Indo-Scythian Kingdom (200 BC–395 AD) Indo-Greek Kingdom (180 BC–10 AD) Nabataean kingdom (168 BC–106 AD) Commagene (163 BC–72 AD) Hasmonean Kingdom (140 BC–37 BC) Kingdom of Lazica (131 BC–697 AD) Himyarite Kingdom (110 BC–525 AD) Buyeo Kingdom (c. 100 BC ...