A historical kingdom and region in central Africa, located in present-day Chad.
From Arabic and local African languages; the name derives from the region's geography and ethnic designation. The kingdom flourished from the 16th to 19th centuries.
Bagirmi was a thriving African state with sophisticated trade networks and Islamic scholarship that's often overlooked in Western history—it controlled salt trade routes and issued its own coins centuries before European contact.
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