- 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...
- 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...
-
first and was
conquered by the
Tunjur kingdom in the 16th century. In 1611, a Maba
named Abd al-Krim
expelled the
Tunjur and
became the
first Kolak (King)...
-
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...
-
until 1916.
Originally the
Keira clan were
perhaps regional rulers in the
Tunjur state, with
Sulayman traditionally seen as the
founder of the
Darfur state...
-
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...
