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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 ...
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 ...
1 North Africa and Europe. 2 Iran and Caucasus. ... Hausa; مصرى; پنجابی ... Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen (1926–1970 AD) — Zaidi; Bahrain
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 Hausa.
There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".
Kingdom of Larsa (1961 BC–1674 BC) Babylonia (1830 BC–732 BC) Mycenaean (c. 1900 BC–c. 1100 BC) East Asian Bronze Age. Gojoseon Kingdom (2333 BC–108 BC) Xia Kingdom (2070 BC–1600 BC) Shang Kingdom (c. 1600–1046 BC) Late Bronze Age. Mitanni Kingdom (c. 1500 BC–c. 1300 BC) Kingdom of Arzawa (c. 1500 BC–c. 1200 BC) Phoenicia (1200 ...
The city is one of the seven medieval Hausa kingdoms. The principal inhabitants of the city are the Hausa and Fulani people. Centuries before British colonization, Kano was strongly cosmopolitan with settled populations of Arab, Tuareg, Kanuri and remains so with the Hausa language spoken as a lingua-franca by over 70 million speakers in the ...
The Hausa have, in the last 500 years, criss-crossed the vast landscape of Africa in all its four corners for varieties of reasons ranging from military service, [23] [24] long-distance trade, hunting, performance of hajj, fleeing from oppressive Hausa feudal kings as well as spreading Islam.