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| Empire of Mali Mali | ||||
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| Capital | Kangaba; Niani; others | |||
| Language(s) | Mandinka | |||
| Religion | Ancestral Worship Islam | |||
| Government | Monarchy | |||
| Mansa (King of Kings) | ||||
| - 1230–1255 | Sundiata Keita | |||
| - 17th c. | Mahmud IV | |||
| History | ||||
| - Established | 1230s | |||
| - Disestablished | 1600s | |||
| Currency | Gold dust | |||
| Today part of |  Mauritania Senegal The Gambia Mali Niger Burkina Faso Guinea-Bissau Guinea Sierra Leone Côte d'Ivoire | |||
The Empire of Mali dates back from c. 1230 to the 1600s in the area of West Africa that, at its height, covered portions of the present-day countries of Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Côte d'Ivoire. Though the kingdom of Mali existed for hundreds of years earlier as a state of the Empire of Ghana, it only became an empire itself under the leadership of King Sundiata.[1] The history of this time has been preserved in the story of Sundiata's Epic.
References
- ↑ Jackson, John G. (2001). Introduction to African Civilizations. New York, NY: Kensington Publishing Corp. p. 207. ISBN 0-8065-2189-9. Cite has empty unknown parameter:
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