Mali Empire
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Mali Empire | |||||||||||||||||
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| c. 1235–c. 1610 | |||||||||||||||||
 Extent o the Mali Empire (c. 1350) | |||||||||||||||||
| Caipital | Niani; later Ka-ba | ||||||||||||||||
| Common leids | Malinké, Mandinka, Fulani, Bozo | ||||||||||||||||
| Releegion | African Tradeetional Releegion, Islam | ||||||||||||||||
| Mansa (Emperor) | |||||||||||||||||
• 1235–1255 | Mari Djata I (first) | ||||||||||||||||
• c. 17t century | Mahmud IV (last) | ||||||||||||||||
| Legislatur | Gbara | ||||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Postclessical Era | ||||||||||||||||
• Established | c. 1235 | ||||||||||||||||
• Caipital muived frae Niani tae Kangaba | 1559 | ||||||||||||||||
• State collapses and divided among emperor's sons | c. 1610 | ||||||||||||||||
| Aurie | |||||||||||||||||
| 1250[2] | 100,000 km2 (39,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1312[3] | 1,294,994 km2 (500,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1380[2] | 1,100,000 km2 (420,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1500[2] | 400,000 km2 (150,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||||
| Currency | Gowd dust (Saut, copper an cowries war an aa common in the empire) | ||||||||||||||||
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| The day pairt o |  The Gambie Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Mali Mauritanie Niger Senegal | ||||||||||||||||
Naitional Seembol: Faucon | |||||||||||||||||
The Mali Empire (Manding: Nyeni;[5]), an aa historically referred tae as the Manden Kurufaba,[1] wis an empire in Wast Africae frae c. 1230 tae c. 1610. The empire wis foondit bi Sundiata Keita an acame renained for the wealth o its rulers, especially Mansa Musa. The Manding leids war spoken in the empire.
The Mali Empire wis the lairgest in Wast Africae an profoondly influenced the cultur o Wast Africae throu the spread o its leid, laws an customs.[6]
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Piga, Adriana: Islam et villes en Afriqa au sud du Sahara: Entre soufisme et fondamentalisme, p. 265. KARTHALA Editions, 2003.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Taagepera, p. 497.
- ↑ Hempstone, p. 312.
- ↑ Walker, Sheila S.: "African roots/American cultures: Africa in the creation of the Americas", p. 127. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
- ↑ Ki-Zerbo, Joseph: UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. IV, Abridged Edition: Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century, p. 57. University of California Press, 1997.
- ↑ "The Empire of Mali, In Our Time - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 2015-10-29.