 The Daju, inhabitants of Jebel Marra, appear to have been the dominant group in Darfur in the earliest period recorded.How long they ruled is uncertain, little being known of them save a list of kings.Dr Arkell (1959) mentions that the Daju are originally meroites who re-established their capital at Jebel Gadir (Gadir was a Daju king who died and buried beneath this Jebel which attributed to him) in the recent Kordofan region.