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Bornu polity       LUcat Search catalogue 294902295

APP
2002-02-12

INP
2002-02-12

STA
Approved

UPD
2012-07-20

DUT
Bornu polity

IND
1

MIS
HR. Bron Wikipedia 8.6.2012. Kings and rulers: Umar V ibn Abi Bakr Jarbay, Shehu of Borno.

PPN
294902295

UDC
340.141.1Borno 340.141.1Bornu

SN
ca. 1256-1893. Location: around Lake Chad, present-day Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, with a remnant of the old empire continuing to exist as the Borno Emirate in Nigeria, based in Maiduguri.

MRF
321Bornu

BT1
West African polities

UF
Borno Empire
Bornou Empire
Bornu Empire
Fika Emirate
Kanem-Borno Empire
Kanem-Bornu Empire

BSO
09.01.02 NAMED POLITIES



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