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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...
- 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...
- regarding land rights subsequent to the Norman Conquest. Approximate date – Koumbi Saleh, an important mercantile and political center of the Ghana Empire...
- around the 11th century. Around 750 AD, these kingdoms grew into Awkar or Koumbi Saleh. 11th century Arab historian Al-Bakri wrote about this great kingdom...
- willingly adopted Islam with the exchange of gold for an imam relocating to Koumbi Saleh.: 23–24  Some scholars contest that cultures and identities can't...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...