Polity · 1385 CE – 1894 CE
Bornu Empire
- Peak recorded area
- 339,371 km²
- 1579 CE
- Data series
- 10
- 1880 CE–1880 CE
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.
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Territory
12 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
The record
The best-attested series in each category; where several projects publish the same quantity, the one with the most observations is shown. Each row is the most recent value the record holds at or before 1894 CE, shown with the year that value belongs to. Some statistical series also publish forward projections — the year column is the honest guide. Nothing on this page is interpolated or estimated by us.
People
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Community Size | 7ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Economy
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Agriculture Intensity | 5ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Agriculture | 4ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Fishing | 4ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Gathering | 0ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Hunting | 0ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Husbandry | 2ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Governance
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Jurisdictional Hierarchy | 3ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Political Succession | 6ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Development
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Class Stratification | 4ordinal1880 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Language & currency
- Official & national languages
- Saharan
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock)Ethnographic Atlas (D-PLACE 2.3)
Kirby, K.R. et al. (2016). D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity. PLoS ONE 11(7).
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Bornu Empire is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.