Muri founded in 1817 as a Fulbe jihad state (founder Hamman Ruwa, d. 1833); disunity to 1880; wars with the Jukun chiefdoms, especially Kona; Royal Niger Company at Ibi from 1883; submitted to the British in 1901 under Emir Hassan; capital Jalingo.
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