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Tanimoune
Tanimoune dan Souleymane was sultan of Damagaram, with its capital at Zinder, in the mid and later 19th century, until 1884. He threw off the overlordship of Bornu, built up an army with firearms and locally made cannon, and enlarged the sultanate by conquest. Under him Zinder became a leading town on the trans-Saharan route from Kano to Tripoli.
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