African-Ottoman borderlands during the early…

Nov 23, 2025

In 1574, the first of two embassies from the kingdom of Bornu in the Lake Chad basin arrived at the Ottoman sultan’s court in Istanbul, seeking, among other aims, to delineate the frontier between the two powers in the region of Fezzan (in Libya).

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Immemorial

Nov 24

Extremely interesting !

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