Tributary network · approximate1380 – 1893 · 513 years

Kanem-Bornu Empire

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

Overview

The Kanem–Bornu Empire was an empire based around Lake Chad that once ruled areas which are now part of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Libya, Algeria, Sudan, and Chad. The empire was sustained by the prosperous trans-Saharan trade and was one of the oldest and longest-lived empires in world history and especially in African history.

Wikipedia: Kanem–Bornu Empire·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Tributary network

A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps
SNAPSHOT1500
MATCHEDBornu-Kanem
POLITY TYPEtributary

Wars of this empire5

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

Kanem-Bornu Expansion Wars1200–1600
Major conflict
Rabih's Wars1879–1900
Major conflict
Kanem-Bornu-Tuareg Conflicts1400–1700
Significant
Jukun (Kwararafa) Wars1600–1700
Significant
Rabih az-Zubayr's Conquest of Bornu1893
Significant

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1380 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Kanem-Bornu Empire (1380 – 1893). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/africa-kanem-bornu-empire · Sources & methodology