Last modified: 2025-04-12 by bruce berry
Keywords: sudan | sultanate of darfur |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
See also:
The Sultanate of Darfur was a pre-colonial state in present-day Sudan. It
existed from 1603 to October 24, 1874, when it fell to the Sudanese warlord
Rabih az-Zubayr.
Later on, when Sanin Husain (c. 1847–1909) a religious
and military leader who served the Mahdist State, refused to surrender and
continued to maintain a Mahdist holdout at Kabkabiya in Darfur, reestablishing
the Sultanate of Darfur, repeatedly defeating the armies of Sultan Ali Dinar
until he was finally killed by Ali Dinar's forces in a siege of Kabkabiya
lasting 17 to 18 months, in January.
This Sultanate existed until 1916,
when it was occupied by the British and the Egyptians and was integrated into
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, as part of the Anglo-Egyptian
Condominium (1899 - 1956). 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.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanin_Husain and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Darfur
Esteban Rivera, 22 Apr 2024
Interestingly and linked, this reproduction of the
"Petit Journal" (https://www.dna.fr/divers/2018/07/30/la-gloire-de-fiegenschuh)
which represents the death of the unfortunate French officer explorer
Jean-Joseph Fiegenschuh, on January 04, 1910 at the battle of Bir Tawil (not the
same as the famous one...), you can see, at the top, a red flag framed in white
like that of Sharjah or Ras Al-Khaima. The rebels are most likely to be
Masalits, whose territory (the Dar Masalit) was at the time vassal of the Dar
Fur.
Picture:
https://cdn-s-www.dna.fr/images
Jean-Marc Merklin, 22 Apr 2024
It does not seem to be [likely] that the flag of the recent liberation movement (2003) was the one traditionally used by the Darfuris (Furs). They also did not choose these colors by chance and the FOTW page presents Mahdist flags from the early 20th century which had similar black red green color layouts that differ from the more seen framed style.
Brendan Hennessy, 23 Apr 2024
