{
  "g": "h,caliphate,africa",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Sokoto Caliphate",
  "now": "nigeria",
  "years": "1804–1903",
  "id": "sokoto",
  "index": "c/nigeria:1804",
  "title": "Flag of the Sokoto Caliphate",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "green",
      "hex": "#38803f",
      "cmyk": "56/0/51/50",
      "note": "Islamic green of the Jihadists."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Sokoto Caliphate (1804–1903) was the largest independent state in 19th-century Africa, spanning much of today's northern Nigeria and beyond\n - **Construction:** a plain green field — the banner of Usman dan Fodio's Fulani Jihad and the pan-Islamic green used across the Sahel\n - Individual emirates within the Caliphate flew their own variations; plain green is the canonical modern depiction of the Sokoto standard",
  "flag": "empires/sokoto.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Sokoto Caliphate",
    "officialName": "Sokoto Caliphate",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- Founded by the scholar-warrior Usman dan Fodio after his 1804 jihad against the Hausa city-states\n - At its height the Caliphate administered some 10 million people across 30 emirates\n - Defeated by British forces under Lugard in 1903; its aristocracy was absorbed into the Northern Nigeria Protectorate",
  "_name": "Sokoto Caliphate",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "sokoto"
}