Africa (11th–12th c.)

Africa beyond Egypt in the 11th and 12th centuries: the Almoravid and Almohad empires of the western Maghreb, the Banu Hilal in Ifriqiya, Ghana and the trans-Saharan gold trade, the Muslim kings of Kanem, the Christian kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia, the Swahili coast and the first states of the Limpopo valley.

6 events · 2 regions · Africa, Western and Central Europe

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Events

• The Banu Hilal invade Ifriqiyabetween 1050 and 1051 – 1057 · Africa
• Al-Bakri describes Ghana in the ‘Book of Roads and Kingdoms’between 1067 and 1068 · Africa
• Hummay founds the Sayfawa dynasty: Islam at the court of Kanembetween 1075 and 1085 · Africa
• Battle of Sagrajas (az-Zallaqa)23 October 1086 · Western and Central Europe
• The Almoravids: from a desert reform movement to an empirebetween 1039 and 1046 – 1147 · Africa
• K2 (Bambandyanalo) and the rise of Mapungubwec. 1000 – c. 1220 · Africa

Key participants

Sources

1. Wikipedia (English): Almoravid dynasty
2. Wikipedia (English): Ghana Empire
3. Wikipedia (English): Kanem–Bornu Empire
4. Wikipedia (Russian): Альморавиды
5. Wikipedia (Russian): Империя Гана
6. Wikipedia (Russian): Канем (государство)

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