Confederation · approximate1000 – 1804 · 804 years

Hausa City-States

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

Hausa Kingdoms, also known as Hausaland, was a collection of states ruled by the Hausa people, before the Fulani jihads. It was situated between the Niger River and Lake Chad. Hausaland lay between the Western Sudanic empires of Ancient Ghana, Mali and Songhai and the Eastern Sudanic empire of Kanem-Bornu.

Wikipedia: Hausa Kingdoms·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Confederation

A confederation of independent groups; member territories shifted and overlapped, so the perimeter is approximate.

SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
DETAILhand-crafted-from-atlases
SNAPSHOT1700
MATCHEDHausa States
POLITY TYPEconfederation

Wars of this empire1

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Sokoto Jihad of Usman dan Fodio1804–08
World-changing

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1000 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Hausa City-States (1000 – 1804). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/africa-hausa-kingdoms · Sources & methodology