Zamfara

Zamfara was a Hausa kingdom in the river valleys of northwestern Nigeria. Tradition dates the walled capital Birnin Zamfara to King Bakurukuru around 1300; the kingdom was a tributary of Kebbi.

Around 1715 King Babba allied with Gobir against Kebbi, defeating its army at Tsamiya Maibaura and capturing its king. Gobir later turned against Zamfara and stormed Birnin Zamfara around 1756; the last king, Mairoki, was hunted down at Kiawa. The Fulani jihad absorbed the ruined kingdom into the Sokoto Caliphate in the early nineteenth century.