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Sokoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (806 words) |
 | Sokoto is a city located in the extreme northwest of Nigeria, near to where the Sokoto River and Rima river meet. |
| Being the seat of the Sokoto Caliphate, the city is an important centre of Nigerian Islam, and the population is predominantly muslim. |
| Sokoto is in the dry Sahel surrounded by sandy savannah and isolated hills. |
| Fulani Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (831 words) |
| While the Sultan of Sokoto was paramount the Emirs controlling the other cities, especially Kano steadily increased in power during the nineteenth century. |
| In 1903 both Sokoto and Kano were sacked and the Empire collapsed, being divided between the French and British. |
| The Sultan of Sokoto remains to this day the main religious leader of Nigerian Muslims, and the position is still held by descendents of dan Fodio. |
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