| LC control no. | n 91109959 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Fulani Empire |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Fulani Empire |
| Variant(s) | Fula Empire Fulah Empire Sokoto Empire Sokoto Caliphate |
| Beginning date | 1808~ |
| Ending date | 1903 |
| Found in | Midel, M. Fulbe und Deutsche in Adamaua (Nord-Kamerun) 1809-1916, c1990 (name not given) Encyc. Brit., 1982 (Fulani Empire) Oyewole, A. Hist. dict. of Nigeria, 1987 (Fulani Empire, f. around 1808 by Usman dan Fodio in the course of a holy war; empire divided into a western sector with headquarters at Gwandu and an eastern sector with headquarters at Sokoto; the empire lasted about 100 years) Webster's new geog. dict., c1984 (ref. from Fulah Empire to Sokoto) LC data base 10-29-91 (hdg.: Fula Empire) Music and the Islamic reform in the early Sokoto Empire, 1986. Wikipedia, Apr. 7, 2006 (The Fulani Empire was one of the most powerful states in sub-Saharan Africa in the years prior to European colonization ... It became the largest state in Africa stretching from what is today Burkina Faso to Cameroon) Wikipedia, Mar. 24, 2016: Sokoto Caliphate [redirected from Fulani Empire] (The Sokoto Caliphate was an independent Islamic Caliphate, in West Africa. Founded during the jihad of the Fulani War in 1809 by Usman dan Fodio, it was abolished when the British defeated the caliph in 1903 and put the area under the Northern Nigeria Protectorate) Enc. Britannica, viewed Mar. 24, 2016 (Fulani empire, Muslim theocracy of the Western Sudan that flourished in the 19th century) |
| Geographic area code | fw----- |
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