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    Johann Heinrich Barth (/bɑːrθ, bɑːrt/; German: [baʁt]; 16 February 1821 – 25 November 1865) was a German explorer of Africa and scholar. Barth is thought...
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    Karl Heinrich Barth (12 July 1847 – 23 December 1922) was a German pianist and pedagogue. Karl Heinrich Barth was born in Pillau, East Prussia (modern...
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    in December 1854. In 1851, a British expedition led by Heinrich Barth arrived in Borno. For Barth, 'Abd ar-Rahman was a: good soldier but a man of very...
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    Timbuktu have been described: Songhay origin: both Leo Africanus and Heinrich Barth believed the name was derived from two Songhay words: Leo Africanus...
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    wealth of his subjects. In 1851, a British expedition led by Heinrich Barth arrived in Borno. Barth met Bukar when he was around twelve and according to him...
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    younger brothers, Peter Barth (1888–1940) and Heinrich Barth (1890–1965), and two sisters, Katharina and Gertrude. Fritz Barth was a theology professor...
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    Royal Chronicle, or Girgam, discovered in 1851 by the German traveller Heinrich Barth. Remnant successor regimes of the empire, in form of Borno Emirate and...
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    threatening Christian European presence, and even provided protection to Heinrich Barth from an attempted kidnapping by the ruler of Massina, Amadu III. In...
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  • Sefuwa dynasty to the German traveller Heinrich Barth in 1851, in Kukawa, the nineteenth century capital of Bornu. Barth reported that a translation was published...
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    visited the city. Three other Europeans reached the city before 1890: Heinrich Barth in 1853 and the German Oskar Lenz with the Spaniard Cristobal Benítez...
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    the invaders chose to make Timbuktu their capital. By the time of Heinrich Barth's visit in 1854, Gao had declined to become an impoverished village with...
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  • Fredrik Barth (1928–2016), Norwegian anthropologist Fredy Barth (born 1979), Swiss race-car driver Heinrich Barth (1821–1865), German explorer Heinz Barth (1920–2007)...
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    Khaldun, Tariq Ibn Ziyad was from a Berber tribe in what is now Algeria. Heinrich Barth mentions that Tariq Ibn Ziyad was a Berber from the tribe of the Ulhassa...
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    cotton cloth traded as far as Tripoli, Lake Chad, and Timbuktu. In 1851, Heinrich Barth (a German scholar who spent several years in northern Nigeria in the...
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    teacher's teachers Barth (1847 – 1922) studied with teachers including Hans von Bronsart and Carl Tausig. Paul Arma Arthur Rubinstein Heinrich Neuhaus  [pupils]...
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    government building. Along with Heinrich Barth, Nachtigal has been regarded as the other important German explorer of Africa. Like Barth, Nachtigal was primarily...
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    Royal Chronicle or Girgam discovered in 1851 by the German traveler Heinrich Barth. Kanem rose in the 8th century in the region to the north and east of...
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    current prehistoric research: Contributions to a symposium, Cologne 1990. Heinrich-Barth-Institut. Hepburn, H. Randall; Radloff, Sarah E. (2013-03-14). Honeybees...
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    include the French archaeologist Leon Heuzey (1855), the German explorer Heinrich Barth (1862), and the German engineer Edward Richter. Richter tried to reach...
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    Petermann, Thomas E. Bowdich, William D. Cooley, Heinrich Kiepert, Paul Belloni du Chaillu and Heinrich Barth. Many times he included an outline map of Germany...
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    Fields: Progress in African Archaeobotany (PDF). Africa Praehistorica 15. Heinrich-Barth-Institut. pp. 239–272. ISBN 3-927688-20-7. Archived (PDF) from the original...
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    Progress in Africa Archaeobotany. Africa Praehistorica. Vol. 15. Cologne: Heinrich-Barth-Institut. pp. 239–271. ISBN 3-927688-20-7. "International Year of Millets...
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    March 1850, Richardson went for the second time to Ghat accompanied by Heinrich Barth and Adolf Overweg. His party were the first Europeans to cross the stony...
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    Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (1810–1897) (Irish born), explored Ethiopia Heinrich Barth Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (Italian born) Johann Ludwig Burckhardt Frederick...
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  • (2013). Desert road archaeology in ancient Egypt and beyond. Cologne: Heinrich-Barth-Institut. p. 34. ISBN 978-3-927688-41-4. Waldheim, Charles (2006). The...
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    exploring the region in the 19th century, beginning with German explorer Heinrich Barth, who stayed in Zinder in 1851, and later the French explorer Marius...
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  • Around 1850 the German explorer Heinrich Barth found it fairly widespread in Kano, Kuka, Gando, and even Timbuktu. Barth relates that in Muniyoma, one of...
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    the state that it became easy prey for Soumaoro Kante, an event that Heinrich Barth dated to approximately 1203. He conquered Diarra and Gajaaga and subdued...
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  • led an expedition with Barth and Overweg from Tripoli to Lake Chad. Heinrich Barth (1821–1865) [1850-55]. With the British expedition above travelled from...
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    (in 1805–1806), the Oudney-Denham-Clapperton expedition (1822–25), Heinrich Barth (1850–55 with James Richardson and Adolf Overweg), Friedrich Gerhard...
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