The Mali Empire (Manding: Mandé or Manden Duguba; Arabic: مالي, romanized: Mālī) was an empire in West Africa from c. 1226 to 1670. The empire was founded...
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and salt. Mali was part of three successive powerful and wealthy West African empires that controlled trans-Saharan trade: the Ghana Empire (for which...
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Mansa Musa (redirect from Musa of Mali)
ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign. Musa's reign is often regarded as the zenith of Mali's power and prestige...
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The military history of the Mali Empire is that of the armed forces of the Mali Empire, which dominated Western Africa from the mid 13th to the late 15th...
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The history of the eponymous Mali Empire and of the Songhai Empire during the 13th to 16th centuries The borders of Mali are those of French Sudan, drawn...
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Keita dynasty (redirect from List of rulers of the Mali Empire)
Niani. There would be nine faamas of Niani prior to the founding of the Mali Empire. Its first mansa would be Sundiata Keita. This is when Mari Jata is crowned...
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Mali Empire. Mali conquered Gao near the end of the 13th century. Gao remained under Malian command until the late 14th century. As the Mali Empire started...
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The national flag of Mali (French: drapeau du Mali) is a tricolour with three equal vertical stripes. From the hoist (the place where the flagpole meets...
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Bonoman, Sijilmassa, and other Saharan cities. It became part of the Mali Empire early in the 14th century. By this time it had become a major centre...
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منسا سليمان, romanized: Mansā Sulaymān; d. c. 1359) was mansa of the Mali Empire during the middle of the 14th century. He was the brother of Mansa Musa...
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such as Baol. Jolof was a vassal of the Mali Empire for much of its early history. It remained within that empire's sphere of influence until the latter...
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The music of Mali is, like that of most African nations, ethnically diverse, but one influence predominates: that of the ancient Mali Empire of the Mandinka...
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time included Takrur to the west, the Malinke kingdom of Mali to the south, and the Songhai Empire centred on Gao to the east. When Ghana atrophied in the...
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14th & 15th century Africa (section The Mali Empire)
in Africa were the Mali Empire, Kingdom of Kongo, Ife Empire, Benin Kingdom, Hausa City-states, Great Zimbabwe, Ethiopian Empire, Kilwa Sultanate, Khormans...
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prosperity, the empire began its decline in the second millennium, and would finally become a vassal state of the rising Mali Empire at some point in...
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Mansa (title) (redirect from Mansa of the Mali Empire)
as "king". It is particularly known as the title of the rulers of the Mali Empire, such as Mansa Musa, and in this context is sometimes translated as "emperor"...
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Mandé peoples (section Mali Empire)
and achieved military conquest with the expansion of the Ghana Empire, Mali Empire, Kaabu and Wassoulou states. The non-Mandé-speaking Fula, Songhai...
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Songhai people (section Under Mali Empire)
and Mali. Historically, the term "Songhai" did not denote an ethnic or linguistic identity but referred to the ruling caste of the Songhay Empire known...
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and north of Beledougou. The empire peaked under the reign of Soumaoro Kante, who was defeated by the rising Mali Empire of Sundiata Keita. Sosso was...
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In 1751 he also conquered Niani, making the Mansa of the rump-state Mali Empire a vassal.: 333 During this time he founded the city of Bla as an outpost...
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Djenné (redirect from Djenné, Mali)
Songhai town and urban commune in the Inland Niger Delta region of central Mali. The town is the administrative centre of the Djenné Cercle, one of the eight...
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The Gao Empire was a kingdom that ruled the Niger bend from approximately the 7th century CE until their fall to the Mali Empire in the late 14th century...
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Timbuktu (redirect from Tombouctou, Mali)
and attracted many scholars and traders before it became part of the Mali Empire early in the 14th century. In the first half of the 15th century, the...
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Niger (section Mali Empire (1200s–1400s))
was on the fringes of some states, including the Kanem–Bornu Empire and the Mali Empire before more significant parts of its territory became included...
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Niani, Guinea (redirect from Niani, Mali Empire)
: 165 Niani eshte is often considered one of the ancient capitals of the Mali Empire. Some scholars believe that the village became the capital in the early...
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Pre-imperial Mali refers to the period of history before the establishment of the Mali Empire, an African empire located mostly in present-day Mali, in c. 1235...
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Azawad (redirect from Northern Mali)
Mali Empire. King Musa I peacefully annexed Timbuktu in 1324, as he returned from his famous pilgrimage to Mecca. With the power of the Mali Empire waning...
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Mopti and Ségou Regions of Mali. It was founded by Seku Amadu in 1818 during the Fulani jihads after defeating the Bambara Empire and its allies at the Battle...
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Musa II was mansa of the Mali Empire from 1374 to 1387. Musa II took the throne following the death of his father, Mansa Mari Diata II. He turned away...
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