Town · West Africa: the Sudan and Guinea · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Fada

Fada is the main water and grazing place of the western Ennedi plateau, home of the Bideyat (Beri), kin of the Zaghawa, and of Daza clans.

Not recorded near 1200.

Who holds it

Title
clan elders
Confidence
low

Lord in 1200

The Bideyat (Beri) and Daza clans of the Ennedi

How things stand that morning

Self-governing herders; see Western Zaghawa.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Later geography only.

Sources and studies

  1. Wikipedia: Toubou people (Teda and Daza, clans with their own oases, pastures and wells, the derde of the Tumagra, the Aza craft caste, earliest mentions by Ibn Qutayba and al-Khwarizmi)

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