Daura, town and customary emirate, Katsina state, northern Nigeria. The town lies in a savanna zone at the crossing point of streets from Katsina town, Kano, Zango, and Zinder (Niger). An old settlement, the name of which signifies "metal forger" in the Tuareg language, it was established by a sovereign and was governed by ladies in the ninth and tenth hundreds of years. It is the otherworldly home of the Hausa public: a notable legend of western Africa relates that Bayajida (Abuyazidu), a child of the ruler of Baghdad, slaughtered Sarki, the fixation snake at the town's well, and wedded the ruling Daura sovereign. Their relatives turned into the seven leaders of the Hausa Bakwai (The Seven True Hausa States). Daura accordingly turned into a Hausa express that extended over the outskirts of present-day Nigeria and Niger. Daura town turned into a troop community for salt and potash from the Sahara Desert and for fabric, slaves, calfskin, and horticultural produce from the south; however it never picked up the political or military conspicuousness of Katsina (49 miles [79 km] west) or of Kano (73 miles [117 km] south).
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Little else is known about Daura state until the Fulani jihad (sacred battle) in 1805, when Malam Ishaku, a Fulani fighter, after a fruitful attack set up an emirate central command in Daura. While Fulani emirs reigned in Daura, rival Hausa realms were set up close by at Daure (Zango) and at Daure (Baure). Zango (established in 1825) was the more conspicuous Hausa-Daura realm, and in 1903–04, after the British and French had isolated the three Daura nations, the British introduced Zango's the best, Malam Musa, as the new emir of Daura. A piece of previous North-Central state after 1967, the conventional emirate was joined into Kaduna state in 1976. It turned out to be important for the recently made Katsina state in the last part of the 1980s.
Neighborhood exchange Daura town is principally in sorghum, millet, onions, peanuts (groundnuts), cotton, and covers up and skins; steers, goats, sheep, ponies, and jackasses are kept by its Hausa and Fulani occupants. Cotton weaving and nut gathering (for send out) are critical financial exercises. The town is served by an administration wellbeing office and a dispensary. It is likewise the base camp of a neighborhood government board. Pop. (2006) neighborhood government zone, 219,721.