Songhai Empire
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.svg) The territorial extent o the Songhai Empire in c. 1500.
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| Caipital | Gao[1] | ||||
| Leids | Songhai | ||||
| Government | Empire | ||||
| Dia (King) | |||||
| - | 1464–1492 | Sunni Ali | |||
| - | 1492–1493 | Sonni Bāru | |||
| - | 1493–1528 | Askia the Great | |||
| - | 1529–1531 | Askia Musa | |||
| - | 1531–1537 | Askia Benkan | |||
| - | 1537–1539 | Askiya Ismail | |||
| - | 1539–1549 | Askia Ishaq I | |||
| - | 1549–1582/1583 | Askia Daoud | |||
| - | 1588–1592 | Askia Ishaq II | |||
| Historical era | Postclessical Era | ||||
| - | Songhai state emerges at Gao | c. 1000 | |||
| - | unthirldom frae Mali Empire | c. 1430 | |||
| - | Sunni Dynasty begins | 1468 | |||
| - | Askiya Dynasty begins | 1493 | |||
| - | Songhai Empire faws | 1591 | |||
| - | Dendi Kinrick continues | 1592 | |||
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| - | 1500[2] | 1,400,000 km² (540,543 sq mi) | |||
| - | 1550[3] | 800,000 km² (308,882 sq mi) | |||
| Siller | Cowry | ||||
| The day pairt o |  Benin Burkina Faso Guinea Guinea-Bissau Mali Mauritanie Niger Nigerie Senegal The Gambie |
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The Songhai Empire (an aa transleeteratit as Songhay) wis a state that dominatit the wasrten Sahel in the 15t an 16t century. At its peak, it wis ane o the lairgest states in African history. The state is kent bi its historiografical name, derived frae its leadin ethnic group an rulin elite, the Songhai.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ Bethwell A. Ogot, Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, (UNESCO Publishing, 2000), 303.
- ↑ hunwick 2003, pp. xlix.
- ↑ Taagepera 1979, pp. 497.
