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Duguwa Dynasty

Duguwa Dynasty

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The Duguwa dynasty is the line of kings (mai
Mai
-Name:*Mai, old French for Maia, the Italic goddess of spring, the daughter of Faunus, and wife of Vulcan **Mak, the transliteration of the same name pronounced in Cantonese*Omai, aka Mai, the first person from the Pacific Islands to visit Europe...

) of the Kanem Empire
Kanem Empire
The Kanem Empire was located in the present countries of Chad and Libya. At its height it encompassed an area covering not only much of Chad, but also parts of southern Libya and eastern Niger...

 prior to the rise of the Islam
Islam
Islam Islam Islam ( al-’islām, There are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or , and whether the a is pronounced as in father, as in cat, or (when the stress is on the i) as in the a of sofa...

ic Seyfawa dynasty
Sayfawa dynasty
The Sayfawa dynasty is the name of the kings of the Kanem-Bornu Empire, centered first in Kanem in western Chad, and then, after 1396, in Borno ....

 in 1081. According to the Girgam
Girgam
Diwan is the Arabic and Girgam the older term of the royal chronicle of Kanem-Bornu. The latter name is also used for either written or oral historical traditions in some kingdoms west of Bornu like Daura and Fika....

, the Duguwa kings were Zaghawa
Zaghawa
The Zaghawa are an African ethnic group or tribe, mainly living in eastern Chad and western Sudan, including the Darfur province of Sudan....

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The Duguwa dynasty is the line of kings (mai
Mai
-Name:*Mai, old French for Maia, the Italic goddess of spring, the daughter of Faunus, and wife of Vulcan **Mak, the transliteration of the same name pronounced in Cantonese*Omai, aka Mai, the first person from the Pacific Islands to visit Europe...

) of the Kanem Empire
Kanem Empire
The Kanem Empire was located in the present countries of Chad and Libya. At its height it encompassed an area covering not only much of Chad, but also parts of southern Libya and eastern Niger...

 prior to the rise of the Islam
Islam
Islam Islam Islam ( al-’islām, There are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or , and whether the a is pronounced as in father, as in cat, or (when the stress is on the i) as in the a of sofa...

ic Seyfawa dynasty
Sayfawa dynasty
The Sayfawa dynasty is the name of the kings of the Kanem-Bornu Empire, centered first in Kanem in western Chad, and then, after 1396, in Borno ....

 in 1081. According to the Girgam
Girgam
Diwan is the Arabic and Girgam the older term of the royal chronicle of Kanem-Bornu. The latter name is also used for either written or oral historical traditions in some kingdoms west of Bornu like Daura and Fika....

, the Duguwa kings were Zaghawa
Zaghawa
The Zaghawa are an African ethnic group or tribe, mainly living in eastern Chad and western Sudan, including the Darfur province of Sudan....

.
Kanem Period
Sef
SEF
SEF may refer to:* Supplementary eye fields, areas in the primate brain that are involved in planning and control of saccadic eye movements* Spectral edge frequency, a measure used in signal processing...

c. 700
700
-North America:* The Mount Edziza volcanic complex erupts in northern British Columbia, Canada.-Asia:* Musa bin Nusair defeats the Berber army in Algeria, ending resistance against the Arabs there....

Dugu
Dugu
The Dugu is a type of ancient funereal practice that the Garifuna people participate in. The Garifuna is a moderate to small Central American ethnic group that has inhabited many of the Central American countries such as Belize and Honduras since the 1600s. Their roots come from both the...

c. 785
785
- Europe :* Widukind and many other Saxons are baptized.* The Frankish empire conquers Girona from the Moors.* Talorgen succeeds Talorcan II as king of the Picts.* Višeslav becomes ruler of Croatian Dalmatia.-Art:...

 (son of Sef, namesake of the dynasty)
Fune c. 835
835
-Europe:* Ragnar Lodbrok rises to power .* The celebration of All Saints is made an obligation throughout the Frankish Empire and fixed on November 1.* The Vikings raid Dorestad.-Asia:...

Aritso c. 893
893
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Katuri c. 942
942
-Asia:* Kaminarimon, the eight-pillared gate to Japan's Kinryuzan Sensouji Temple, is erected.* The Chavda Kingdom is overthrown in Gujarat, India.-Europe:* Hywel Dda, king of Deheubarth, annexes Gwynedd to become ruler of most of Wales.-Religion:...

Ayoma c. 961
961
-Asia:* Ani becomes the capital of Armenia under the Bagratuni Dynasty.* The Huqiu Tower is built in China .-Europe:* The Byzantine Empire recaptures Crete from Muslim control....

Bula
Bula
Bulă is a fictional Romanian, an important stock character of Romanian humor.Bulă, a buffoon and coward, was "born" during the Nicolae Ceauşescu regime of Communist Romania...

c. 1019
Arki
Arki
Arki may refer to:*Arki, India: a town in Himachal Pradesh, India*Arki, Greece...

c. 1035
Shu
Shu
Shu may refer to:*Shū ** , Japanese Kanji. Master of a Household*Shu * 蜀 , an abbreviation of Sichuan province of the People's Republic of China, as well as the following historical regimes that existed in this region:** Shu , a state during the Zhou Dynasty era** Shu Han, a kingdom during the...

c. 1077
Abd al-Dhel c. 1081