• 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 arose...
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    on the History of Mali Ghana Empire (c. 700 – c. 1200) Soninke people Koumbi Saleh Gao Empire (9th century–1430) Pre-Imperial Mali Mali Empire (c. 1235–1670)...
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    Sumanguru Kanté) was a 13th-century king of the Sosso people. Seizing Koumbi Saleh, the capital of the recently defunct Ghana Empire, Soumaoro Kanté proceeded...
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  • small trading kingdoms. 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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    on the History of Mali Ghana Empire (c. 700 – c. 1200) Soninke people Koumbi Saleh Gao Empire (9th century–1430) Pre-Imperial Mali Mali Empire (c. 1235–1670)...
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    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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    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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    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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    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 in...
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  • Ghana controlled access to the goldfields of Bambouk, southeast of Koumbi Saleh. A percentage of salt and gold going through its territory was taken...
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    Ghana controlled access to the goldfields of Bambouk, southeast of Koumbi Saleh. A percentage of salt and gold going through its territory was taken...
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    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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    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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    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 places...
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  • 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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    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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  • architectural and material cultural elements similar to those found at Koumbi Saleh in the 1920s. The earliest proto-polity ancestral to Ghana likely arose...
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  • desiccated and the settlements began to decline, most likely relocating to Koumbi Saleh. Architectural evidence and the comparison of pottery styles suggest...
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    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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    the Maghribi commercial city of Sijilmasa and its southern terminus in Koumbi Saleh, capital of the Ghana Empire. Later, the southern trade route ended in...
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    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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    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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    south-east Mauritania and western Mali. The Sosso people had their capital at Koumbi Saleh until Sundiata Keita defeated them at the Battle of Kirina (c. 1240)...
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    to Rome. Aoudaghost, an important Berber trading center and rival of Koumbi Saleh, is captured by the Ghana Empire. King Edward the Confessor unites the...
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  • 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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  • on the History of Mali Ghana Empire (c. 700 – c. 1200) Soninke people Koumbi Saleh Gao Empire (9th century–1430) Pre-Imperial Mali Mali Empire (c. 1235–1670)...
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  • 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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    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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  • a well-guarded realm dotted with garrisons in Walata, Timbuktu, Gao, Koumbi-Saleh and many others. In 1312, Mansa Musa I came to power and brought the...
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