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The Fur are hoe-cultivators living in village communities concentrated along the slopes of the Jebel Marra massif in the south-central Darfur region of Sudan. Hereditary sultans ruled the former Fur Sultanate that, at its greatest extent during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, encompassed over fifty culturally and linguistically distinct ethnic groups. The root causes of Darfur’s civil war—that during the worst violence in 2003-2004 left some 200,000 civilians dead and millions homeless—can be traced back to issues of land tenure and inter-ethnic relations during the sultanate.

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Economic spheres in Darfur

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Youth organisation among the Fur

Notes on the For Tribe of Central Africa

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Slavery and the slave trade in Dār Fūr

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Adem, Teferi Abate	Culture Summary	2021
Barth, Fredrik, 1928	Economic spheres in Darfur	1967
Beaton, Arthur Charles	The Fur	1948
Beaton, Arthur Charles	Youth organisation among the Fur	1941
Felkin, Robert William	Notes on the For Tribe of Central Africa	1886
Flint, Julie	Darfur	2008
Lampen, G. D.	History of Darfur	1950
O'Fahey, R. S. (Rex S.)	Slavery and the slave trade in Dār Fūr	1973

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