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THE BREIF HISTORY OF THE MARGI PEOPLE (1)  The First Record of Margi in the Literature The first record in literature which places the Margi ethnic group around the Lake Chad was that of Fra Mauro, recorded on his mid-15th century map, on which he placed the Margi southeast of Lake Chad (Falchetta, 2006; DeCorse, 2001: 142, 2006). There are two accounts of when Fra Mauro drafted the map. On the web page of the Mandara publishing company, which is based in the United Kingdom, it is indicated that Fra Mauro drafted the map in 1459. But Piero Falchettas’ book and CD-ROM (2006), Fra Mauro's World Map, indicates that the map was sketched around 1450. In any case, the point is, Fra Mauro placed the Margi ethnic group around the Lake Chad prior to the year 1564, when the leader of the Saifawa Dynasty of the Kanuri, Idris Alauma, started his campaign against the Margi and the Touareg ethnic groupsFra Mauro’s map of 1459 is important because it placed the Margi together as a group