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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...
- architectural and material cultural elements similar to those found at Koumbi Saleh in the 1920s. The earliest proto-polity ancestral to Ghana likely...
- his rule the heretic Barghawatas were destro****. In 1076, he conquered Koumbi Saleh capital of the Ghana Empire, and is credited to have brought Islam...
- or Sumanguru Kanté) was a 13th-century king of the Sosso people. Seizing Koumbi Saleh, the capital of the recently defunct Ghana Empire, Soumaoro Kanté...
- excavations carried out in several historic Mauritanian cities such as Koumbi Saleh, Aoudaghost, Tichit, Ouadane and Azougui. The ethnographic collections...
- 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...
- escape his rule, and religious ****cution drove Muslim traders to abandon Koumbi Saleh for Djenne and Oualata. He beheaded Muslim kings who opposed him....
- the Upper Niger. Under the leadership of Soumaro Kanté, the Sosso seized Koumbi Saleh, former capital of the Ghana Empire, and expanded outward, conquering...
- 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...
- States, Canada and Senegal. Les Sanglots de l'espoir, 1987 Le Serment, 1987 Koumbi Saleh ou Les pâturages du ciel, 1993 Les Remparts de la mémoire, 1999 Poètes...