Gaourang II of Bagirmi
Mbang (king) of the Chadian Bagirmi kingdom · Historical Figures · Lived 1858 to 1918 · aged 60
Abd ar-Rahman Gaourang II was Mbang of Bagirmi from 1885 to 1918. He came to power at a time when the sultanate was in terminal decline, subject to both Wadai and Bornu. The Sudanese warlord Rabih az-Zubayr made him his vassal in 1893. Gaourang signed a treaty that made his sultanate a French protectorate in 1897.
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After the final defeat of Rabih in 1900 he ruled as a subordinate of the French in Chad until his death in 1918.
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