The Songhai Empire was a state located in the western part of the Sahel during the 15th and 16th centuries. At its peak, it was one of the largest African...

linked to the Songhai Empire which dominated the western Sahel in the 15th and 16th century. Predominantly adherents of Islam, the Songhai are primarily...

The Moroccan invasion of the Songhai Empire began with an expedition sent in 1590 by Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur of the Saadian dynasty, which ruled over Morocco...

and the Songhai Empire chipped away at Mali's borders. In 1542, the Songhai invaded the capital but were unsuccessful in conquering the empire. During...

Askia dynasty of the Songhai Empire, reigning from 1493 to 1528. He is also known as Askia the Great, and his name in modern Songhai is Mamar Kassey. Askia...

Empire and the Mali Empire before more significant parts of its territory became included in states such as the Sultanate of Agadez and the Songhai Empire...

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

the Songhai Empire by the army of the Saadi dynasty in Morocco. Though vastly outnumbered, the Moroccan forces under Judar Pasha defeated the Songhai Askia...

before the 13th century The history of the eponymous Mali Empire and of the Songhai Empire during the 13th to 16th centuries The borders of Mali are those...

The expanding Songhai Empire absorbed the empire in 1468,[not verified in body] followed by a Saadian army which defeated the Songhai in 1591. In the...

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

century, Mai Idris Alooma modernized its military, in contrast to the Songhai Empire. Turkish mercenaries were used to train the military. The Sayfawa dynasty...

delivered sporadic, surprise assaults on the enemy. In West Africa, the Songhai Empire under the Askia Mohammad I (1493–1528) possessed a full-time corps of...

15th ruler of the Sunni dynasty of the Songhai Empire. He transformed the relatively small state into an empire by conquering Timbuktu, Massina, the Inner...

widely used as a lingua franca in that region ever since the era of the Songhai Empire. In Mali, the government has officially adopted the dialect of Gao (east...

multiple 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...

(or Dandi, Dendiganda) was a former province of the Songhai Empire. It survived the fall of the Empire as a kingdom until 1901, when it was conquered by...

Several empires in human history have been contenders for the largest of all time, depending on definition and mode of measurement. Possible ways of measuring...

Notably, they trace their lineage to the ruling dynasties of the ancient Songhai Empire. In Niger and Burkina Faso, differentiating the Songhaiborai from the...

Takrur to the west, the Malinke kingdom of Mali to the south, and the Songhai Empire centred on Gao to the east. When Ghana atrophied in the face of invasion...

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...

Ghaji ibn Dunama was the first ruler of Bornu Empire to assume the title. Askia Mohammad I of Songhai Empire also assumed the title around the same time...

important successors of the Songhai Empire. Based on an earlier kingdom established in 1640, it grew into a powerful empire in the early 18th century under...

by the Za dynasty from the capital of Gao, the empire was an important predecessor of the Songhai Empire. Apart from some Arabic epitaphs on tombstones...

ruled the Songhai Empire at the height of that state's power. It was founded in 1493 by Askia Mohammad I, a general of the Songhai Empire who usurped...

Lamtuna, the Mali Empire and the Jolof Empire, in the early 16th century the area was conquered by Koli Tenguella, who founded the Empire of Great Fulo....

conquest by and annexation to the Sultanate of Ndzuwani (Anjouan). In the Songhai Empire, criminal justice was based mainly, if not entirely, on Islamic principles...

the Wangarawa and the Dallazawa, and was a vassal to neighboring empires such as Songhai and Bornu. At its peak, Katsina's capital was a prominent city...

areas marked "Peuple Sérère". The Songhai Empire c. 1500 Bornu Empire territory by 1500 The Mali Empire, the Songhai Empire and surrounding states, c. 1530...

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 invaders...