Wadai , historical African kingdom east of Chad and west of Darfur, in modern-day Region Ouaddaï ( see there ) to the east of the Chad . It was founded in the 16th century and around 1630 there was a Muslim Dynasty Long dependent on Darfur, it became independent in the 1790s and began a period of rapid expansion, largely at the expense of the Kingdom Bornu to the west. Its prosperity resulted from its location at the crossroads of two important trade routes:the east-west route that crossed the upper Nil and connecting Darfur to Bornou and Kano, and the Trans-Saharan route from Abéché (Wadai's capital) north to Banghāzī on the Mediterranean. In the 19th century, caravans abandoned other desert routes in favor of the Abéché-Banghāzī route because of the regional stability brought about by a number of strong Wadai kings or Kolak has been reached (al-Sharif, 1835–58), safer were Ali (1858–74) and Yusuf (1874–98 ). French occupation between 1906 and 1914 ended Trans-Saharan trade.
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