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Borkou

region, Chad
Also known as: Borku
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Borkou, region in northern Chad, centred around the town of Faya (formerly Largeau). It is mostly a sandy desert of the southeastern Sahara, south of the Tibesti massif and west of the Ennedi plateau. Formerly a vassal state of Ouaddaï, a Muslim (Sanūsī) sultanate, it was ceded to France under an Anglo-French agreement (1899), but Sanūsī control over the region was not broken until 1913–14. French troops remained in Borkou (and neighbouring Ennedi and Tibesti)...

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