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Wadai Sultanate
Sultanate of Wadai سلطنة وداي | |||||||||||
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| 1501–1912 | |||||||||||
 Wadai and surrounding states in 1750. | |||||||||||
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| Common languages | Maba, Chadian Arabic, Tunjur, Fur | ||||||||||
| Religion | Traditional African religion, later Islam (official 1635) | ||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||
| Kolak | |||||||||||
• 1603–1637 | Abd al-Karim Al Abbasi | ||||||||||
• 1902–1909 | Dud Murra of Wadai | ||||||||||
• 1909-1912 | 'Asil Kolak | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Early modern period | ||||||||||
• Established | 1501 | ||||||||||
• Abd al-Karim overthrows the Tunjur King Daud | 1635 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1912 | ||||||||||
• Wadai reconstituted under French suzerainty | 1935 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Central African Republic Chad Sudan | ||||||||||
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The Wadai Sultanate (Arabic: سلطنة وداي Saltanat Waday, French: royaume du Ouaddaï, Fur: Burgu or Birgu;[1] 1501–1912), sometimes referred to as the Maba Sultanate (French: Sultanat Maba), was an African sultanate located to the east of Lake Chad in present-day Chad and the Central African Republic. It emerged in the seventeenth century under the leadership of the first sultan, Abd al-Karim, who overthrew the ruling Tunjur people of the area. It occupied land previously held by the Sultanate of Darfur (in present-day Sudan) to the northeast of the Sultanate of Baguirmi.
- ^ Nachtigal, G. (1971). Sahara and Sudan: Kawar, Bornu, Kanem, Borku, Enned. University of California Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-520-01789-4. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
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