The Tunjur (or Tungur) people are a Sunni Muslim ethnic group living in eastern Chad and western Sudan. In the 21st century, their numbers have been estimated at 175,000 people.[1]
^Nave, Ari (2010). Tunjur. In Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah (eds.) Encyclopedia of Africa. Oxford University Press.
The Tunjur (or Tungur) people are a Sunni Muslim ethnic group living in eastern Chad and western Sudan. In the 21st century, their numbers have been estimated...
founder of the Tunjur dynasty became a "king in the island of Sennar". Origins of the Tunjur state are not well known. It is known that the Tunjur kingdom replaced...
leadership of the first sultan, Abd al-Karim, who overthrew the ruling Tunjurpeople of the area. It occupied land previously held by the Sultanate of Darfur...
to tradition, the Daju dynasty was conquered by the Nubians-speaking Tunjurpeople in the 14th century who moved from the North from the kingdoms of Makuria...
The Tunjurpeople founded the Wadai Kingdom to the east of Bornu in the 16th century. In the 17th century, there was a revolt of the Maba people who established...
Chad. The Tunjurpeople initiated the Wadai Empire to the east of Bornu during the 16th century. During the 17th century, the Maba people revolted and...
rise of the Tunjur kingdom, which replaced the old Daju kingdom in the 15th century and extended as far west as Wadai. The Tunjurpeople were probably...
The Tunjurpeople founded the Wadai Kingdom to the east of Bornu in the 16th century. In the 17th century there was a revolt of the Maba people who established...
rise of the Tunjur kingdom, which replaced the old Daju kingdom in the 15th century and extended as far west as Wadai. The Tunjurpeople were probably...
Fordunga, Furawi, Konjara, or Kungara. They are an active agricultural people and may also herd cattle. Some Fur families who have accumulated a substantial...
before the 17th century. They are noted as having helped expel the Christian Tunjur dynasty and installed an Islamic dynasty in their region in the early 17th-century...
remained a part of French colonial empire until 1960. Founded by the Tunjurpeople in the 16th century and located in the eastern Chad Basin, Wadai's economy...
commune in Italy Uri, Darfur, capital of the Tunjur kingdom Uri (name), a given name Uri (Bible), two people in the Bible Aviva Uri (1922–1989), Israeli...
Tunjur was facilitated through marriage. Eventually the Tunjur began marrying amongst the Fur people producing Sultan Dali, a celebrated figure in Darfur...
In western Sudan, the Daju people gained control of an area near Darfur and were subsequently ousted by the Tunjurpeople in the early thirteenth century...
and it was renamed Dartunjur (Arabic: دار تنجر, romanized: Dār Tunjur) when the Tunjur ruled the area. Darfur was an independent sultanate for several...
A Folktale from Panama (illustrated by Geraldo Valério) (2006) Tunjur! Tunjur! Tunjur! A Folktale from Palestine (illustrated by Alik Arzoumanian) (2006)...
has been the home to several cultures and kingdoms, such as the Daju and Tunjur kingdoms. The recorded history of Darfur begins in the seventeenth century...
Its name stems from the Daju people, the ruling ethnic group. The Daju were eventually ousted from power by the Tunjur and the last Daju king subsequently...
Darfur state, inhabited primarily by the non-Arab Fur people, with minorities of non-Arab Tunjur and Berti groups. The city lies on a route often used...
scattered after the death of Kasi Furogé, the Daju king, and replaced by the Tunjur. The principal phonetic difference between the two branches is the reflex...
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of the Maba people but was destroyed at end of the 15th century. A second Wadai state grew out of the first and was conquered by the Tunjur kingdom in...
series Sex Education. Saleh was born in Kassala, Sudan, to a family with Tunjur heritage, who are originally from Chad/Darfur. Saleh's family became refugees...
participating in the Darfur genocide by targeting Masalit, Daju, Tunjur, and Zaghawa people. The 1987 Dhein Massacre took place in the town of Dhein, located...
Prior to the 1630s CE, Wadai, also known as Burgu to the people of Darfur, was a pre-Islamic Tunjur kingdom, established around 1501 CE. Initially, the core...
Kingdom, west of Kanem–Bornu, was established in the early 16th century by Tunjur rulers. In the 1630s, Abd al Karim invaded and established an Islamic sultanate...
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