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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...
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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...
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Medussa and
Lemtuna Berber tribes, with
garrisons kept at Oualata, Timbuktu,
Koumbi, and Gao, and
responsibility of
governing the
Sahara given to the military...
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escape his rule, and
religious ****cution
drove Muslim traders to
abandon Koumbi Saleh for
Djenne and Oualata. He
beheaded Muslim kings who
opposed him....
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willingly adopted Islam with the
exchange of gold for an imam
relocating to
Koumbi Saleh.: 23–24
According to some traditions, Wagadu's fall is
caused when...
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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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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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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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excavations carried out in
several historic Mauritanian cities such as
Koumbi Saleh, Aoudaghost, Tichit,
Ouadane and Azougui. The
ethnographic collections...
