Not to be confused with the modern country, Ghana.
Ghana Empire
غانا Wagadou واغادو
c. 100–300–c. mid-1200s
The Ghana Empire at its greatest extent
Capital
Koumbi Saleh
Common languages
Soninke, Malinke, Mande
Religion
African traditional religion Later Islam
Government
Monarchy
Ghana
• 700
Kaya Magan Cissé
• 790s
Dyabe Cisse
• 1040–1062
Ghana Bassi
• 1203–1235
Soumaba Cisse
Historical era
1st–3rd century–13th century
• Established
c. 100–300
• Conversion to Islam
1050
• Conquered by Sosso/Submitted to the Mali Empire
c. mid-1200s
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Tichitt culture
Djenné-Djenno
Sosso Empire
Today part of
Mali
Mauritania
Senegal
The Ghana Empire (Arabic: غانا), also known as simply Ghana,[1]Ghanata, or Wagadou, was a West African classical to post-classical era western-Sahelian empire based in the modern-day southeast of Mauritania and western Mali.
It is uncertain when Ghana's ruling dynasty began among historians. The first identifiable mention of the imperial dynasty in written records was made by Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī in 830.[2] Further information about the empire was provided by the accounts of Cordoban scholar al-Bakri when he wrote about the region in the 11th century.
After centuries of prosperity, the empire began its decline in the second millennium, and would finally become a vassal state of the rising Mali Empire at some point in the 13th century. Despite its collapse, the empire's influence can be felt in the establishment of numerous urban centers throughout its former territory. In 1957, the British colony of the Gold Coast, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah named itself Ghana upon independence in honor and remembrance of the historic empire, although their geographic boundaries never overlapped.
^Etheredge, Laura (2009-04-14). "Ghana". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2023-07-09.
^al-Kuwarizmi in Levtzion and Hopkins, Corpus, p. 7.
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