{
  "g": "h,empire,africa",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Kanem–Bornu Empire",
  "now": "nigeria",
  "years": "700–1893",
  "id": "kanem-bornu",
  "index": "c/nigeria:700",
  "title": "Flag of the Kanem–Bornu Empire",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "blue",
      "hex": "#0000ff",
      "note": "Upper band."
    },
    {
      "color": "yellow",
      "hex": "#ffff00",
      "note": "Middle band."
    },
    {
      "color": "green",
      "hex": "#00cc00",
      "note": "Lower band."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Kanem–Bornu Empire (c. 700–1893) was a long-lived Saharan state of the Lake Chad basin, ruled by the Sayfawa dynasty for over eight centuries\n - **Construction:** a horizontal tricolour of blue, yellow, and green — reconstructed from the banner described by 19th-century European travellers to the Bornu court\n - The empire merged **Kanem** (north-east of Lake Chad) and **Bornu** (south-west) after Kanem's dynasty relocated following Bulala attacks in the 14th century",
  "flag": "empires/kanem-bornu.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Kanem-Bornu Empire",
    "officialName": "Kanem-Bornu",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- One of the longest-lived imperial dynasties in world history — the Sayfawa ruled for roughly 800 years\n - An early convert to Islam (c. 1085); Kanem became a major centre of Islamic scholarship in the Sahel\n - Final Shehu of Bornu defeated by the Sudanese warlord Rabih az-Zubayr in 1893; France absorbed the remnants into its empire",
  "_name": "Kanem–Bornu Empire",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "kanem-bornu"
}