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Dunama Dabbalemi, or
Dounama Dibbalém, of the
Sayfawa dynasty, was the mai (king) of the
Kanem Empire, in present-day Chad, from 1210 to 1224. A fervent...
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Palmer 1936
Urvoy 1941 (12) Hume 1086–1097 1086–1097 1085–1097 (17)
Dunama Dibbalemi 1221–1259/60 1221–1259 1210–1224 (47) Ali
Gajideni 1472–1504 1476–1503...
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greatest extent in the 1200s,
partly due to the
effort of Mai
Dunama Dibbalemi (r. 1210–1259), and grew "richer" from its
control of some Trans-Saharan...