Songhai architecture or Zarma architecture refers to the traditional Sahelian architectural style of the Songhai people in West Africa. The architecture...

the Songhai people Safiya Songhai (born 1984), American film director Songhai Empire, a former country The Songhai, a geographic area in Niger Songhai or...

in mosque architecture, including the adoption of traditional local forms not previously associated with Islamic architecture. Under Songhai influence...

with clay mortar were found in northwest Nigeria, possibly inspired by Songhai constructions. Walls built from stone without mortar have been found where...

central Mali and mainly uses mudbrick in its construction. Songhai architecture comes from the Songhai groups of Niger and Northern Mali and include features...

Mossi, Tuareg and Songhai invaders. In the 15th century, the Songhai would form a new dominant state based on Gao, in the Songhai Empire, under the leadership...

periods of patronage and renovation under both the Mali Empire and the Songhai Empire until its decline following the Battle of Tondibi in 1591. The mosque...

as Diarra, Great Fulo, Yatenga, and the Songhai Empire chipped away at Mali's borders. In 1542, the Songhai invaded the capital but were unsuccessful...

in mosque architecture, including the adoption of traditional local forms not previously associated with Islamic architecture. Under Songhai influence...

conquests of Sunni Ali (ruled 1464–1492) it became the capital of the Songhai Empire. The Empire collapsed after the Moroccan invasion in 1591 and the...

flourished in West Africa's two greatest civilisations the Mali Empire and the Songhai Empire. Mali is located in West Africa, holding multiple different cultural...

ߖߍ߬ߣߍ߫, romanized: Jɛ̀nɛ́; also known as Djénné, Jenné, and Jenne) is a Songhai town and urban commune in the Inland Niger Delta region of central Mali...

for a short period, until the expanding Songhai Empire absorbed it in 1468. A Moroccan army defeated the Songhai in 1591 and made Timbuktu their capital...

al-Mansur was drawn irresistibly to the trans-Saharan gold trade of the Songhai in hopes of solving Morocco's economic deficit with Europe. Al-Mansur developed...

Mali, is believed to be the burial place of Askia Mohammad I, one of the Songhai Empire's most prolific emperors. It was built at the end of the fifteenth...

These villages were settled around the early nineteenth century by Hausa, Songhai, and Zarma people on the river's left bank and Fula people on the right...

Empire teetered on the brink of collapse, under pressure from the rising Songhai Empire. In the Americas, both the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire reached...

in Hombori. The Songhai, now the majority population, later followed the royal refugees to this area. Hombori remains a focus of Songhai Empire traditions...

the first ruler of Bornu Empire to assume the title. Askia Mohammad I of Songhai Empire also assumed the title around the same time. Since the 12th century...

Pre-Imperial Mali, before the 13th century, The era of the Mali Empire, and The Songhai Empire, from the 13th to the 16th centuries The present borders of Mali...

repeatedly battle the Songhai and the rising power of the Fula warlords Tenguella and his son Koli Tenguella. When the Songhai were destroyed by a Moroccan...

With its capital at Shiraz, arts and architecture flourished under Karim Khan's reign, with some themes in architecture being revived from nearby sites of...

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from the capital of Gao, the empire was an important predecessor of the Songhai Empire. Apart from some Arabic epitaphs on tombstones discovered in 1939...

as the Khoisan and Pygmies. Some African empires include Wagadu, Mali, Songhai, Sokoto, Ife, Benin, Asante, the Fatimids, Almoravids, Almohads, Ayyubids...

Central India were merged into the Vijayanagara architectural style. This synthesis inspired architectural innovations in the construction of Hindu temples...

Ajami include Hausa, Mandinka, Fulani, Wolofal, Tamazight, Nubian, Yoruba, Songhai, and Kanuri. N'Ko script developed by Solomana Kante in 1949 as a writing...

broader Songhai ethnic umbrella since the beginning. The Zarma migrated south-eastward into their current geographic concentration during the Songhai Empire...

changed to reflect a large Songhai-speaking population residing within the town. "The language of this region is called Songhai, and the inhabitants are...

ethnic groups living with the Yorubas; the Nupe, Ìbàrìbá, and various Songhai peoples of which the Djerma were the most prominent. These various ethnic...