The town of Zinder (or Damagaram) place chief of the area which bears the same name is the second plus big city of the Niger, located at the east of the country on old trade route of Trans-Saharan caravans which connects the the Maghreb to the Black Africa, as of the 11th century. Zinder introduces a rich person inheritance to safeguard, of history, traditions, of architecture and objects. The walled district was the capital of a Moslem state between XVIe and the 19th century. Zinder was conquered by French in 1899 under the reign of sultan daN Tanimoune (Amadou Kourandaga) and was the scene of a vain attempt of the Touareg S to take again the capacity against French during the First World War. The city grew well during first half of the 20th century, when the Nomade S of the area started to settle there. Between 1922 and 1926, Zinder is the capital of the French colony in Niger. For its inhabitants, the city always keeps the name of Damagaram: name which belonged (and still belongs) to the village originating in the area and which identifies also the whole of the territory of the homonymous Sultanate. It has its small airport and is connected to the capital of Niger (Niamey) by a road of 1.000 km. Zinder is currently set up in urban community of 5 communes, following the Law of decentralization, sheltering more than 250.000 inhabitants.

Sultanate

• 1731 - 1746; Malam Younous daN Ibram, born in 1688, died in 1746
• 1746 - 1757; Baba daN Malam
• 1757 - 1775; Tanimoun Babami
• 1775 - 1782; Assafa daN Tanimoun, died in 1782
• 1782 - 1787; Abaza daN Tanimoun
• 1787 - 1790; Mahaman daN Tanimoun " Babou Tsaba"
• 1790 - 1799; Daoudou daN Tanimoun
• 1799 - 1812; Amadu daN Tanimoun " Na Cihanza"
• 1812 - 1822; Saleman daN Tintouma, died in 1831
• 1822 - 1841; Ibram daN Saleman (1st reign)
• 1841 - 1843; Tanimoun daN Saleman " Baki Jataw" , " Dari" (3rd reign), born in 1811 died in 1885
• 1843 - 1851; Ibram daN Saleman (2nd reign), died in 1851
• 1851 - 1851; Mahaman Kace daN Ibram, reigned during a few months
• 1851 - 1880; Tanimoun daN Saleman " Baki Jataou, " " Dari" (2nd reign)
• 1880 - 1880; Kiyari daN Tanimoun, reigned during a few months
• 1880 - 1885; Tanimoun daN Saleman " Baki Jataou, " " Dari" (3rd reign)
• 1885 - 1893; Saleman " daN Aysa" daN Tanimoun " Karami"
• 1893 - 1899; Tinder daN Tanimoun " May Roumdji" , " Kouran Daga". It resisted against French colonization, the captain Cazemajou perishes under its blow. He died in 1899
• 1899 - 1906; Tinder daN Tanimoun (daN Based)
• 1906 - 1921; Ousman Bellama, regent in February 27th 1921, vacant in 27 Fevier 1923
• 1923 - 1950; Barma Moustafa
• 1950 - 1978; Sanda Oumaru daN Tinder, died in 1978
• 1978 - 2000; Aboubakar Oumarou Sanda, born in 1950
• 2000 - 2001; Saidou Adamou Mazou, born in 1947
• In exercise then the 26 July 2001, Mamadu Moustafa, born in 1942

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