The Amirka Sultanate, literally meaning "American sultanate" (Arabic: سلطنة الأمريكية) and originally the Negro Sultanate or Aswad Sultanate meaning "black kingdom" (Arabic: الزنجي السلطنة), was a de facto and unrecognized state that covered the areas of what is now Chicago renamed "Yathrib", Detroit in Michigan renamed to "Medina Detroit" and Milwaukee in Wisconsin, areas where the Nation of Islam had operated and had significant amounts of followers.