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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. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. List of Shia dynasties - Wikipedia

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

  6. List of Muslim states and dynasties - Wikipedia

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    10 Eastern Europe (Balkan Region) 11 Ural Region, ... Hausa Kingdoms (1696–1831) Nupe Kingdom ... Dubreka Kingdom (1800–1888) Fuuta Jalon (1726–1912)

  7. Kingdom of Kano - Wikipedia

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    If the kingdom's name is vocalized as "Habasha" it would correspond with other Arabic language texts that also appear to refer to the Hausa, and would be the earliest reference to the Hausa region. Kano was originally known as Dala , after the hill, and was referred to as such as late as the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th ...

  8. List of kingdoms and empires in African history - Wikipedia

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    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".

  9. Hausa people - Wikipedia

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    Hausa is also being used in various social media networks around the world. [citation needed] Hausa is considered one of the world's major languages, and it has widespread use in a number of countries of Africa. Hausa's rich poetry, prose, and musical literature is increasingly available in print and in audio and video recordings.