Sultanate of Darfur

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Sultanate of Darfur سلطنة دارفور (Arabic) Salṭanat Dārfūr
mid 17th century–1874 1898–1916
Map of Darfur in 1914.
Status	Sultanate
Capital	Kobbe (before 1790) al-Fashir (after 1790)
Common languages	Fur, Arabic
Religion	Sunni Islam
Demonym(s)	Dafurian
Government	Absolute monarchy
Sultan
• mid 17th century	Sulayman Solong
• 1898–1916	Ali Dinar
History
• Established	mid 17th century
• Conquered by Al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur	1874
• Independence from Mahdist Sudan	1898
• Invasion of Darfur	1916
Preceded by Succeeded by Tunjur kingdom Mahdist Sudan Turco-Egyptian Sudan Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Today part of	Sudan

The Sultanate of Darfur (Arabic: سلطنة دارفور, romanized: Salṭanat Dārfūr) was a pre-colonial state in present-day Sudan. It existed from the 17th century to 24 October 1874, when it fell to the Sudanese warlord Al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur, and was reestablished again from 1898 to 1916, until it was conquered by the British. At its peak in the late 18th and early 19th century it stretched all the way from Darfur in the west to Kordofan and the western banks of the White Nile in the east, giving it the size of present-day Nigeria.^[1]