Sultanate of Darfur

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Sultanate of Darfur سلطنة دارفور (Arabic) Salṭanat al-Dārfūr
1603–1874 1898–1916
Map of Darfur in 1914.
Status	Sultanate
Capital	al-Fashir (after 1790)
Common languages	Fur, Arabic
Religion	Sunni Islam
Demonym(s)	Dafurian
Government	Absolute monarchy
Sultan
• 1603–1637	Sulayman Solong
• 1898–1916	Ali Dinar
Historical era	Early Modern Period
• Established	1603
• Conquered by Rabih az-Zubayr	24 October 1874
• Independence from Mahdist Sudan	1898
• Invasion of Darfur	1916
Preceded by Succeeded by Tunjur kingdom Mahdist Sudan Turkish Sudan Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Today part of	Sudan

The Sultanate of Darfur (Arabic: سلطنة دارفور, romanized: Salṭanat al-Dārfūr) was a pre-colonial state in present-day Sudan. It existed from 1603 to 24 October 1874, when it fell to the Sudanese warlord Rabih az-Zubayr, and again from 1898 to 1916, when it was occupied by the British and the Egyptians and was integrated into Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 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]