Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Region

Borkou - Ennedi - Tibesti was until 2008 the then 18 regions of Chad with about 103,000 inhabitants and corresponded to the former prefecture of the same name. Their capital city was Faya. In 2008, the territory of the region was divided between the newly created regions Borkou, Ennedi and Tibesti.

Geography

With 600,350 km ² Borkou - Ennedi - Tibesti was the size as by far the largest of the 18 regions of Chad. It included the northern part of the country.

Borkou - Ennedi - Tibesti was predominantly in the Sahara Desert and partly in the Sahel. In the region are the Bodele - Djourab lowlands, to the east the Ennedi Massif, in northeastern Mourdi the depression and the Erdiland and north of the Tibesti mountain range.

In the north, the region was limited by the Aouzou Strip, who was also the country's border with Libya. In the West Borkou - Ennedi Tibesti bordered the Niger and in the east to the Darfur region in Sudan.

Subdivision

Borkou - Ennedi - Tibesti was divided into four departments ( départements):

Borkou - Ennedi - Tibesti had until 30 June 2010, the ISO 3166-2 code TD- BET. According to the new division of the ISO code TD- BET is omitted. In the regions of the territory now account for the ISO code TD -BO for Borkou, TD- EN for Ennedi and Tibesti for TD -TI.

Population

The Daza ( Tubu ) made ​​in Borkou - Ennedi - Tibesti for more than half of the population. Other ethnic groups were the Teda ( Tubu also ), Zaghawa and Chadian Arabs.

Overall, the region was sparsely populated.

History

The in the second half of the 19th century by Libyan Sanussiya dominated area fell to 1907 completely under French colonial rule. The French are limited to a largely indirect exercise of power in the sparsely populated area, leaving Fascist Italy 1934/35-1943/47 the adjoining Italian Libya Aouzou Strip. With independence in 1960, the region was part of Chad, but in the shadow of the Chadian Civil War, annexed Libya from 1973 to 1987 and from 1988 to 1994 the Aouzou strip again and assisted the resident in Bardai counter-government of the GUNT President Goukouni Oueddei. By 1986, controlled Oueddeis GUNT Libyan troops and the entire Borkou - Ennedi - Tibesti region and thus more than a third of the Chad.

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  • Region in Chad
Ennedi Region Ennedi Plateau Tibesti Mountains Fada Zaghawa people
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