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	Hausa People
		Biram was the original seat of government, while Zaria supplied labor and was known as the "Chief of Slaves." Katsina and Daura were the "Chiefs of the Market," as their geographical location accorded them direct acccess to the caravans coming across the desert from the north.
		Gobir, located in the west, was the "Chief of War" and was mainly responsible for protecting the empire from the invasive Kingdoms of Ghana and Songhai.
		Leadership in the early Hausa states was based on ancestry.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/people/Hausa.html (559 words)

	Usman dan Fodio Summary
		In 1804 Uthman and his followers were forced to flee for safety from Gobir, in a manner reminiscent of Mohammed's flight from Mecca, known as the hijra, and proclaimed the jihad, or holy war, against the Sultan and eventually against all the Hausa chiefs.
		One by one the Hausa states of Gobir, Kebbi, Zamfara, Kano, Katsina, and Zazzau capitulated to the Fulani and were emulated by pagan areas on the periphery of the Hausa states.
		Shehu (Hausa for shaykh) Usuman dan Fodio was born in the Hausa kingdom of Gobir, in the north of the present-day state of Sokoto, Nigeria.
	www.bookrags.com /Usman_dan_Fodio (1747 words)

	THISDAYonline (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gobir stated that the company also planned to install a new power plant by next year to guarantee adequate supply of electricity for the firm.
		Gobir assured the company's shareholders that by the time the on-going rehabilitation exercise was completed, the plant's kiln which hardly runs for nine days now without developing some problems could run for 300 days non-stop in a year.
		Gobir added that for the company to consolidate its raw material development programmes, it encouraged and supported the geological prospecting of gypsum around the country and the development of gypsum quality standard with the Standards Organisation of Nigeria.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2001/05/09/20010509bus02.html (418 words)

	Gobir - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Founded by the Hausa in the eleventh century, Gobir was one of the seven original kingdoms of Hausaland, and continued under Hausa rule for nearly seven hundred years.
		Gobir is particularly remembered as the chief opponent of Fulani Islamic reformer Usman dan Fodio.
		Bawa, a ruler of Gobir, appears to have invited dan Fodio to the area in 1774; dan Fodio made his home in the small town of Degel, and began preaching.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Gobir (300 words)

	Nigeriaworld -- And so Gobir died, shot point blank on the head
		Her 29 year old son, Gobir, a fashion designer and a supporter of "one of the front-line political heavyweights in Kwara state" [Guardian, July 12, 2002], was killed.
		According to the Guardian, Gobir was at a wedding party that night when 12 members of the Gbosa gang arrived in the hotel where the party was being held, armed with guns and machetes.
		Where their activities used to be somewhat uncoordinated in the past, these days, they have emails and cell phones to coordinate their activities and carry them out with military precision and dispatch.
	nigeriaworld.com /columnist/uzokwe/072402.html (2146 words)

	Amana Online
		They also knew that with Gobir there could now be no compromise and that if their cause was to survive they had to fight it out until one or other was crushed.
		The destruction of Zamfara by Gobir had tended to weaken these links, however, and now the appearance of the Fulani on the Gawan Gulbi and their alliance with the independent Zamfara towns had the effect of isolating Kebbi still further.
		On the stony plateaux and steep escarpments of the surrounding hills the Gobir heavy cavalry and the Tuareg camel corps found movement difficult and manoeuvre impossible.
	www.amanaonline.com /Sokoto/sokoto_5.htm (5591 words)

	Welcome to a great history of great people
		Seven independent Hausa city-states were founded in Nigeria one of those cities was Gobir.
		A Fulani born in the Hausa state of Gobir, Usman Dan Fodio studied the Koran with his father, an eminent scholar, then moved from place to place to study with other religious scholars.
		Gobirs are traced to Sahara, Mali, and many other countries.
	www.gobir.net (114 words)

	Gobir \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Founded by the Hausa in the eleventh century, Gobir was one of the seven original kingdoms of Hausaland, and continued under Hausa rule for nearly seven hundred years.Gobir is particularly remembered as the chief opponent of Fulani Islamic reformer Usman dan Fodio.
		Bawa, a ruler of Gobir, appears to have invited dan Fodio to the area in 1774; dan Fodio made his home in the small town of Degel, and began preaching.
		Dan Fodio was given some role in the education of Bawa's nephew and later successor, Yunfa, but also publicly attacked what he saw as the abuses of the Hausa elite, particularly the burden they placed on the poor.
	www.babylon.com /definition/Gobir (137 words)

	Sokoto - LoveToKnow 1911
		The Fula flocked to Fodio's aid, and in the battle of Koto or Rugga Fakko (1804) the king of Gobir was utterly defeated.
		In a few years the Fula had subdued most of the Hausa states, some, like Kano, yielding easily in order to preserve their trade, others, like Katsena, offering a stubborn resistance.
		Gobir and Kebbi remained Unconquered, as did the pagan hill tribes.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sokoto (1543 words)

	Fulani Kingdom
		The growth of Tuareg power in Aïr on its northern frontiers had led the Gobir ruling class to seek compensation to the south and southwest, in the territories of Zamfara and Kebbi.
		The kings of Gobir, like other Hausa monarchs, were at least nominally Muslims, and for a time Usman had been employed at their court.
		The kings of Gobir gradually came to the conclusion that they could not afford to tolerate this independent jurisdiction within their unsettled kingdom and began to take steps against the Muslim community.
	www.jimibah.nu /fulanifacts.php (1192 words)

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		One of the more 'cultivated teachers of this ra.:a, named Othman Dan Fodio, had been tutor to the king of Gobir (a district north of Establish-Sokoto).
		The Fula flocked to Fodio's aid, and in the battle of Koto' or Rugga Fakko (18(4) the king of Gobir was utterly defeated.
		Gobir and Kebbi remained unconquered, as did the pagan hill tribes.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=61982&locale=en (1809 words)

	:: \|\| :: Uthman Dan Fodio :: \|\| ::
		Such tension and frustration which led to mounting dissatisfaction in Gobir as much as in other Hausa city-states was to usher the emergence of 'Uthman Dan Fodio.
		Uthman was born at Maratta, a town in the Hausa state of Gobir, on 29th Safar 1168 AH / Sunday 15th December 1754.
		His father Muhammad Fodio was a well known scholar of his time in Gobir, a descendant of the Torankawa Fulani and heir to a long Islamic tradition of learning.
	www.geocities.com /mutmainaa/people/uthman_dan_fodio.html (1794 words)

	3. Regions. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		He attracted many followers, among whom were newly won converts as well as Hausa farmers and Fulani pastoralists who nursed grievances against the entrenched Hausa leadership.
		Following the model of the Prophet, Usuman dan Fodio led his followers on a hijra, a flight from unbelief, to a rural outpost on the border of Gobir.
		At first the jihad was designed merely to protect the Islamic community that had grown up around dan Fodio, and was restricted to Gobir, Kebbi, and Zamfara.
	www.bartleby.com /67/1510.html (774 words)

	THISDAYonline (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The king of Gobir decided to take matters into his own hands and chose direct military confrontation with the Shehu and his followers.
		At the battle of Tabkin Kwatto in June 1804, the jihadists defeated the army of the King of Gobir, (Gobirawa).
		The King of Gobir tried to reach a compromise with the leaders of the movement, but it failed.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2004/06/27/20040627cov02.html (1718 words)

	Fulani Empire - Japan
		One of the more marginal Hausa states was that of Gobir.
		One of the most revered religious scholars of the region, Usman dan Fodio, an urbanized Fulani, lived in Gobir.
		With the initial approval of Bawa, the ruler of Gobir, he was allowed to found a religious community at Degel.
	fulani-empire.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Fulani_Empire (1250 words)

	webPulaaku/Sokoto/H.A.S. Johnston/The Fulani Empire of Sokoto/The Start of the Jihad (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sarkin Gobir Bunu was destined to rule for only two years and when he died in 1803 he was succeeded by his son Yunfa, Shehu's former pupil 25.
		As Degel was in the west of Gobir, and Gobir in the west of Hausaland, Shehu's retreat took him to the extremity of the outer marches.
		Gobir was still the most powerful of the Hausa States and could put into the field an army of thousands of horse and tens of thousands of foot.
	www.pulaaku.net /defte/hasJohnston/ch04.html (4611 words)

	Key Episodes in Nigerian History
		Katsina and Gobir also paid tribute to Songhai, while Songhai merchants dominated the trade of the Hausa towns.
		It was at this time that the overland trade in kola nuts from the Akan forests of modern Ghana was initiated.
		Gobir, Katsina, Zamfara, Kano, Kebbi, and Zaria formed various alliances, but only Zamfara ceased to exist as an autonomous state, falling to Gobir in the 18th century.
	www.nigeriafirst.org /article_3596.shtml (820 words)

	Zamfara Online web site
		The area today called Zamfara State was one of the old Hausa City-States like Kano, Katsina, Gobir, Kabi and Zazzau.
		century, its then capital Birnin Zamfara, was destroyed by the Gobir Kingdom and a new capital was established in Anka by the second half of the 19
		It became part of the Sakkwato Caliphate after the 1804 Jihad by Usman Danfodiyo.
	www.zamfaraonline.com (678 words)

	3. Regions. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		He attracted many followers, among whom were newly won converts as well as Hausa farmers and Fulani pastoralists who nursed grievances against the entrenched Hausa leadership.
		Following the model of the Prophet, Usuman dan Fodio led his followers on a hijra, a flight from unbelief, to a rural outpost on the border of Gobir.
		At first the jihad was designed merely to protect the Islamic community that had grown up around dan Fodio, and was restricted to Gobir, Kebbi, and Zamfara.
	www.bartelby.com /67/1510.html (774 words)

	MOTHERLAND NIGERIA: BRIEF HISTORY (by Boomie O.)
		Before 1914, before there was ever a country called "Nigeria", the people in what is known as "Nigeria" consisted of 4 different 'empires', some of them extending into parts that are not part of current-day Nigeria, like parts of current-day Ghana, and current-day Cameroon.
		THE NORTHERN EMPIRE was composed of the Borno empire, some Hausa states (Zazzau, Gobir, Kano, Katsina, Birori, Daura) and some other groups (Gwari, Kebbi, Nupe, Yelwa...)
		THE CALABAR KINGDOM is the oldest kingdom, and had the oldest contact with the Europeans.
	www.motherlandnigeria.com /history.html (2062 words)

	2006 - 2007
		And will Eugene's faith lead to a new bond with his dad...or separate them more than ever?
		Whit, Eugene Meltsner, Dalton Kearn, Gobir, Katrina Shanks-Meltsner, Leonard Meltsner
		This show begins immediately where 595: A Time for Action, Part 2 left off.
	www.aiohq.com /2006.htm (292 words)

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	2005 - 2006
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		Eugene Meltsner, Katrina Shanks-Meltsner, Aman, Yosef, Gobir, Kwame
		With Tamika in dance class, Marvin's dinosaur club and a schedule full of other activities, the Washingtons can't find time for family devotions.
	www.aiohq.com /2005.htm (1429 words)

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