Kano is the third largest city in Nigeria after AÚ¯os and Ibadan. Is located in the state of Kano in northern Nigeria
This is followed by the country means the country "Aher" above from the right and west of Bhutto, the country's obsession They are seven provinces, their tongues one, and every region of the Emir of peer-to last before this jihad, and Ibrkha "Lucknow", "Cano" It is a country with trees, and rivers, and sand, mountains, valleys, and Gaal. "
The famous "Cano" since time immemorial Bosoarha great surround each place, and Bbwabadtha multi-style Moroccan outstanding, and as mentioned by some historians that the first built this fence is Prince "Gjima Sue" (1095-1134m) and has expanded these fences and gates, then a private in the fifteenth and sixteenth who witnessed the Islamic reform movement, and economic expansions, and multiple migrations in the country of Mali.
Also saw Cano significant expansion in the sixteenth century during the reign of Sultan Muhammad Nzaki (1618-1623m) and after the establishment of the Islamic Jihad movement in the nineteenth century turned, "Cano" to one of the United Arab Emirates Alnnif thirty of the succession Alsoah, and played a significant role in strengthening the financial situation, and the military , and the state's political.
The famous "Cano" various goods such as textile and dye industry, and has been, and still the richest in the northern states manic modern Government of Nigeria.
As famous for its fertile soils, and the pyramids of peanuts, which represent the backbone of the Nigerian economy before the discovery of oil in large commercial quantities.
Visited "Cano" many travelers and scholars and Western scholars, especially in the nineteenth century, and was the most famous German traveler famous "Hazeek Barth" on behalf of the British Crown in the mid-nineteenth century, and wrote about her community, and its economy, and its architecture, and put military-political, and that was an Contact the beginning of the European colonial home.
Conquered by the English colonists, like other emirates State succession Alsoah year (1903) and defeated Askarha, and emigrated quite a few of its citizens as a result of this colonial conquest of the Dar al-Kufr to Dar al-Islam (Hijaz and Sudan) and assume jurisdiction where there is this city this name, known as the state "Kano "and its capital is also" Cano "spoken about, and has a population of about 15 million people
