BORNO-OTTOMAN RELATIONS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (19. YÜZYILDA OSMANLI-BORNU MÜNASEBETLERİ)

This study is the translation of the article written by Ali Kyari Bani Sheikh who is the one the most important scholarly persons grown in Nigeria about the history of Bornu and the article is handling the relations between Ottoman and Bornu in the political and financial context in 19th century. The most important characteristic of the translation is the representation of bilateral relations in a determined section of African history in the perspective of a local historian in consideration of historical documents founded in National Archive of Libya. In this regard, it is understood that as long as commercial relations between Bornu and Tripolitania protect their functionalities, the transit trade of Sahara preserves its aliveness and thus local societies arrives at prosperous life but with the arrival of European Colonialism to the region, the network of these existing relations are destructed.