Sultanate of Mandara | |||||||
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c. 1500–1902 | |||||||
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Common languages | Mandara | ||||||
Religion | Traditional African religion, later Islam (official 1715) | ||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||
Historical era | Early modern period | ||||||
• Established | c. 1500 | ||||||
• Islamization | 1715 | ||||||
• Disestablished | 1902 | ||||||
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Today part of | Cameroon |
The Mandara Kingdom (sometimes called Wandala or the Kingdom of Medra) was an African kingdom in the Mandara Mountains of what is today Cameroon. The Mandara people are descended from the kingdom's inhabitants.