Abesehir

Abesehir lies in the Wadai highlands, near Ouara, the old capital of the Wadai sultanate. In the seventeenth century Abd al-Karim and his followers overthrew the Tunjur rulers and established an Islamic dynasty. Around 1800 Sultan Sabun equipped caravans for the route north through Ennedi and Kufra to Benghazi, drawing Wadai into trans-Saharan trade.