It was later built into a more civilized community by one of the descendants of Kaura Kuren Gumaru, during the reign of Muhammed Bello, the Emir of Katsina from 1844 to 1886.
Ahmadu Bello University | Maria Bello | Andrés Bello | Muhammed Zafar Iqbal | Muhammed Bello | Commentarii de Bello Gallico | Muhammed Demirci | Frank Bello | Bello | Walden Bello | Noor Uthman Muhammed | Muhammed III Shirvanshah | Muhammed Ghiya'as ud-din | Ahmadu Bello | Yasim Muhammed Basardah | Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani | Sani Bello | Muhammed Yusuf Khan | Muhammed X, Sultan of Granada | Muhammed X | Muhammed VI, Sultan of Granada | Muhammed Memić | Muhammed Mansooruddin | Muhammed Ibrahim al-Juraissey | Muhammed edh-Dhib | Muhammed | Mohammed Bello Abubakar | Mamman Bello Ali | Hermínio Bello de Carvalho | Domingo Bello y Espinosa |
Usman, being more of a scholar than politician, delegated the practical regency of the western part of his empire to Abdullahi, who later became the Emir of Gwandu, and the eastern part to his son Muhammed Bello.
In 1815, Usman dan Fodio retired from the administrative business of the Caliphate and divided the area taken over during the Fulani War with his brother Abdullahi dan Fodio ruling in the west with the Gwandu Emirate and his son Muhammed Bello taking over administration of the Sokoto Caliphate.
Zazzau's most famous early ruler was Queen (or princess) Amina, who ruled either in the mid-fifteenth or mid-sixteenth centuries, and was held by Muhammed Bello, an early nineteenth century Hausa historian and the second Sultan of Sokoto, to have been the first to establish a kingdom among the Hausa.