A tribal state on the frontier between what is now Nigeria and Niger. This people (the name means "Men of Fara", Fara being an early noblewoman or Princess) were based at Dutsi, Nigeria, until c. 1300, when they removed to Birnin Zamfara. They were ejected from there to Kiawa, Nigeria, c. 1756, and by 1805 they were at Sabon Gari, Niger, and Ruwan Gora, Nigeria, in 1810, under the tutulege of the Jihad Empire of the Fulani at Sokoto. Their final capital was at Anka, Nigeria. All these places are roughly east or southeast of Sokoto by about 100 miles (160 km.) or so, and west or southwest of Katsina in comparable distances - Anka is on the Upper Zamfara River, 80 miles (128 km.) southeast of Sokoto.