Tenere Sultanate of Aïr | |||||||||||||||
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| 1404–1906 | |||||||||||||||
 Rough location of the Sultanate | |||||||||||||||
| Capital | Agadez | ||||||||||||||
| Common languages | Tamajeq, Arabic, Hausa | ||||||||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||||||||||||
| Government | Sultanate | ||||||||||||||
| Establishment | |||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
• Establishment of the Sultanate | 1404 | ||||||||||||||
• Agadez proclaimed as the new seat of the Sultanate | 1430 | ||||||||||||||
• Conquered by Songhai | 1500 | ||||||||||||||
• Fall of the Songhai Empire | 1591 | ||||||||||||||
• Incorporated into French West Africa | 1906 | ||||||||||||||
• Established | 1404 | ||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1906 | ||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Niger | ||||||||||||||
The Sultanate of Agadez (also known as Tenere Sultanate of Aïr,[1] Sultanate of Aïr, or Asben[2]) was a Berber kingdom centered first in the city of Agadez (initially, in the village of Tadaliza) in the Aïr Mountains, located at the southern edge of the Sahara desert in north-central Niger. It was founded in 1405 by the Tuareg.[3] The Agadez Sultanate was later conquered by the Songhai Empire in 1500.[1] After the defeat of the Songhai kingdom in 1591, the Agadez Sultanate regained its independence. It experienced a steep decline in population and economic activity during the 17th century. The sultanate came under French suzerainty in 1906.
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- ^ "Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 442–443).
- ^ Souag, Lameen (2022). "Prasse, Karl-G. & Ghabdouane Mohamed. 2019. L'Histoire du Niger, transcrit du touareg de l'Ayr. Tome I. Ăttarix wan Nižer (229 pp.) – Tome II. Textes traduits en français. (204 pp.) – Supplement by Harry Stroomer 'In memoriam Karl-Gottfried Prasse & Ghabdouane Mohamed' (34 pp.). Berber Studies vol. 53. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. ISBN 978-3-89645-953-4. 98€". Afrikanistik-Aegyptologie-Online.