• Koumbi Saleh, or Kumbi Saleh, is the site of a ruined ancient and medieval city in south east Mauritania that may have been the capital of the Ghana Empire...
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    architectural and material cultural elements similar to those found at Koumbi Saleh in the 1920s. The earliest proto-polity ancestral to Ghana likely...
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    his rule the heretic Barghawatas were destroyed. In 1076, he conquered Koumbi Saleh capital of the Ghana Empire, and is credited to have brought Islam...
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    escape his rule, and religious persecution drove Muslim traders to abandon Koumbi Saleh for Djenne and Oualata. He beheaded Muslim kings who opposed him.: 212–13 ...
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    or Sumanguru Kanté) was a 13th-century king of the Sosso people. Seizing Koumbi Saleh, the capital of the recently defunct Ghana Empire, Soumaoro Kanté...
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    excavations carried out in several historic Mauritanian cities such as Koumbi Saleh, Aoudaghost, Tichit, Ouadane and Azougui. The ethnographic collections...
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  • the Upper Niger. Under the leadership of Soumaro Kanté, the Sosso seized Koumbi Saleh, former capital of the Ghana Empire, and expanded outward, conquering...
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    desiccated and the settlements began to decline, most likely relocating to Koumbi Saleh. From the type of architecture and pottery, it is believed that Tichit...
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  • around the 11th century. Around 750 AD, these kingdoms grew into Awkar, or Koumbi Saleh. 11th century Arab historian Al-Bakri wrote about this great kingdom...
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    Kirina Twelve Doors of Mali Ghana Empire (c. 700 – c. 1200) Soninke people Koumbi Saleh Mali Empire (c. 1235–1670) Musa I of Mali Mandinka people Kouroukan...
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    Levtzion & Hopkins 2000, p. 46. As Tegdaoust is 318 km (198 mi) north of Koumbi Saleh, the likely site of the Ghanaian capital, each stage would correspond...
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    Empire and themselves set out on a road of conquest, they take its capital Koumbi Saleh in 1203 1235 Great warrior leader Sundiata Keita of the Mandinka people...
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    Kissi in Burkina Faso, Diouboye in Senegal, Gao Ancien, Essouk in Mali, and Koumbi Saleh in Mauritania, all in twelfth- to fourteenth-century contexts. Ilé-Ifè...
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    Medussa and Lemtuna Berber tribes, with garrisons kept at Oualata, Timbuktu, Koumbi, and Gao, and responsibility of governing the Sahara given to the military...
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  • Dunkwa-on-Offin Kingdom 1500–1701 AD Gao Gao Empire 9th century–1430 AD Ghana Empire Koumbi Saleh Empire 400–1235 AD Great Fulo Anyam-Godo Empire 1490–1776 AD Guinala...
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    Boutilimit department is made up of following communes: Bousteila Hassimhadi Koumbi Saleh Timbédra Touil "Mauritania: Administrative divisions". www.citypopulation...
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    later Lobi people), and Akan, and trade routes, outlined. The desert should extend further south to Koumbi. The Mossi Kingdoms are located north of Lobi....
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    regarding land rights subsequent to the Norman Conquest. Approximate date – Koumbi Saleh, an important mercantile and political center of the Ghana Empire...
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    Hamod Hassichegar Jidr-El Mouhguen Kaédi Kamour Kankossa Keur-Macene Kobeni Koumbi Saleh Lahraj Legrane Leouossy Lexelba Maghama Magta-Lahjar Male Mbagne Mbalal...
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  • 1180, Diara Kanté (var: Jara Kante), Soumaoro's father gained control of Koumbi Saleh, dethroned a Muslim dynasty and continued the Diarisso Dynasty (variation:...
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    Hamod Hassichegar Jidr-El Mouhguen Kaédi Kamour Kankossa Keur-Macene Kobeni Koumbi Saleh Lahraj Legrane Leouossy Lexelba Maghama Magta-Lahjar Male Mbagne Mbalal...
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    Kirina Twelve Doors of Mali Ghana Empire (c. 700 – c. 1200) Soninke people Koumbi Saleh Mali Empire (c. 1235–1670) Musa I of Mali Mandinka people Kouroukan...
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    ship from Thessaloniki. A wireless station was established at the islet of Koumbi, while destroyers permanently patrolled the bay entrance for protection...
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    the Ghana Empire is attacked by the Almoravids, who sack the capital of Koumbi Saleh, ending the rule of king Tunka Manin 1076: the Chinese Song dynasty...
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  • with evidence. The charge was dismissed. Shortly before trial, George Koumbis, a local gun store owner and the husband of a defense witness, was murdered...
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    the Maghribi commercial city of Sijilmasa and its southern terminus in Koumbi Saleh, capital of the Ghana Empire. Later, the southern trade route ended...
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    pilgrimage to Rome. Aoudaghost, an important Berber trading center and rival of Koumbi Saleh, is captured by the Ghana Empire. King Edward the Confessor unites...
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  • Kirina Twelve Doors of Mali Ghana Empire (c. 700 – c. 1200) Soninke people Koumbi Saleh Mali Empire (c. 1235–1670) Musa I of Mali Mandinka people Kouroukan...
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    Hamod Hassichegar Jidr-El Mouhguen Kaédi Kamour Kankossa Keur-Macene Kobeni Koumbi Saleh Lahraj Legrane Leouossy Lexelba Maghama Magta-Lahjar Male Mbagne Mbalal...
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    Hamod Hassichegar Jidr-El Mouhguen Kaédi Kamour Kankossa Keur-Macene Kobeni Koumbi Saleh Lahraj Legrane Leouossy Lexelba Maghama Magta-Lahjar Male Mbagne Mbalal...
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