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- ↑ Lange, Dierk (2009). "The Early Magistrates and Kings of Kanem as Descendants of Assyrian State Builders". Anthropos. 104 (1): 15. doi:10.5771/0257-9774-2009-1-3. ISSN 0257-9774. JSTOR 40467104.
- ↑ Lange 2009, p. 13.
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