- The
Tunjur (or Tungur)
people are a ****
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...
- and it was
renamed Dartunjur (Arabic: دار تنجر, romanized: Dār
Tunjur) when the
Tunjur ruled the area.
Darfur was an
independent sultanate for several...
-
leadership of the
first sultan, Abd al-Karim, who
overthrew the
ruling Tunjur people of the area. It
occupied land
previously held by the
Sultanate of...
- the 14th
century migrants the
Tunjur were the
earliest powers in Darfur. The
transition of
power from the Daju to the
Tunjur was
facilitated through marriage...
-
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...
-
Arzoumanian (ill), (2006):
Tunjur!
Tunjur!
Tunjur! A
Palestinian Folktale, ISBN 978-0-7614-5225-6, is
based on the "
Tunjur,
Tunjur" story,
first told by Fatme...
- the rise of the
Tunjur kingdom,
which replaced the old Daju
kingdom in the 15th
century and
extended as far west as Wadai. The
Tunjur people were probably...
- 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...
-
ruling ethnic group. The Daju were
eventually ousted from
power by the
Tunjur and the last Daju king
subsequently fled to present-day Chad. The sources...
