The Sahel forms a belt up to 1,000 km wide, spanning Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.
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The Sahelian kingdoms were a series of centralized kingdoms or empires that were centered on the Sahel, the area of grasslands south of the Sahara, from the 8th century to the 19th. The wealth of the states came from controlling the trade routes across the desert. Their power came from having large pack animals like camels and horses that were fast enough to keep a large empire under central control and were also useful in such kind of battle. All of these empires were also quite decentralized with member cities having a great deal of autonomy.
The Sahel states were limited from expanding south into the forest zone of the Bono and Yoruba as mounted warriors were all but useless in the forests and the horses and camels could not survive the diseases of the region.
The Saheliankingdoms were a series of centralized kingdoms or empires that were centered on the Sahel, the area of grasslands south of the Sahara, from...
region (/səˈhɛl/; from Arabic ساحل (sāḥil [ˈsaːħil]) 'coast, shore') or Sahelian acacia savanna is a biogeographical region in Africa. It is the transition...
are known African empires and their respective capital cities. The Saheliankingdoms were a series of medieval empires centred on the Sahel, the area of...
Hausaland lay between the Western Sudanic kingdoms of Ancient Ghana, Mali and Songhai and the Eastern Sudanic kingdoms of Kanem-Bornu. Hausaland took shape...
The Mossi Kingdoms, sometimes referred to as the Mossi Empire, were a group of powerful kingdoms in modern-day Burkina Faso which dominated the region...
(Golden Empire) kingdoms of West Africa succeeding the Saheliankingdomskingdoms of Central and Southern Africa such as the Kongo Kingdom and the Mutapa...
and Ngom families.: 30 They were related to early rulers of neighboring kingdoms such as Baol. Jolof was a vassal of the Mali Empire for much of its early...
standard currency throughout the realm, but several forms were used. The Sahelian and Saharan towns of the Mali Empire were staging posts in the long-distance...
circles between 3rd century BCE and 16th century CE. The Saheliankingdoms were a series of kingdoms or empires that were built on the Sahel, the area of...
clan groups in the Horn of Africa; the large Saheliankingdoms; and autonomous city-states and kingdoms such as those of the Akan; Edo, Yoruba, and Igbo...
The Pashalik of Timbuktu, also known as the Pashalik of Sudan, was a West African political entity that existed between the 16th and the 19th century....
trade of elephants and their ivory to fill the state's treasury. Many kingdoms were either conquered or forced to become tributaries, giving horses for...
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...
State University. OCLC 18240510. O'Fahey, R.S.; Spaulding, Jay L. (1974). Kingdoms of the Sudan. Methuen Young Books. ISBN 0416774504. Spaulding, Jay; Kapteijns...
full-time corps of warriors. Askia is said to have cynical attitudes towards kingdoms lacking professional fighting forces. Al-Sa'di, the chronicler who wrote...
The Tunjur kingdom was a Sahelian precolonial kingdom in Africa between the 15th and early 17th centuries. Local chronicles claim that the founder of the...
This is a list of kingdoms and empires in Africa throughout history. The vast majority of kingdoms included in this list existed prior to the Scramble...
of a small Bambara kingdom in the city of Ségou in Mali. Though he made many successful conquests of neighboring tribes and kingdoms, he failed to set...
Niani was a Mandinka kingdom located on the north bank of the Gambia River from approximately the 14th to the late 19th century in what is now The Gambia...
Wuli was a Mandinka kingdom located on the north bank of the Gambia River in what is now the eastern portion of The Gambia and the Tambacounda region...
trade was beginning to be an important factor in the formation of the Saheliankingdoms. The pre-Columbian New World was in a time of general transition in...
received tribute from over a dozen vassal kingdoms. These included, at least for part of the period, the Kingdom of Jolof, Waalo, Cayor, Gajaaga, Diarra...
The Shilluk Kingdom, dominated by the Shilluk people, was located along the left bank of the White Nile in what is now South Sudan and southern Sudan...
majorly during the reign of Mansa Musa from c. 1312 – c. 1337. These Saheliankingdoms had neither rigid geopolitical boundaries nor rigid ethnic identities...
(1537–1867), also written Gabu, Ngabou, and N'Gabu, was a federation of Mandinka kingdoms in the Senegambia region centered within modern northeastern Guinea-Bissau...
Usman dan Fodio in 1804 during the Fulani jihads after defeating the Hausa Kingdoms in the Fulani War. The boundaries of the caliphate are part of present-day...
The Kingdom of Niumi, also known as the Kingdom of Barra, was a West African nation at the Gambia River. Niumi was located at the mouth of the river,...
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