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ID: 7032935
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7032935
Record Type:
administrative
Songhai Empire (former nation/state/empire)
Coordinates:
Lat: 16 29 24 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 16.4900
decimal degrees
Long: 002 09 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -2.1500
decimal degrees
Note:
A great trading state of West Africa (flourished 15th-16th century), located on the Niger River in what is now central Mali, and eventually extending west to the Atlantic coast and east into Niger and Nigeria.
Names:
Songhai Empire
(
preferred
,
C
,
O
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
Gao Empire
(
C
,
V
)
Songhay Empire
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Songhai Empire
(former nation/state/empire) (
P
)
Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (
preferred
,
C
)
empire (
H
)
Related geographic places:
historical connection ....
Mali
.......... (nation)
........................................
(World, Africa) [1000175]
successor of ....
Gao
.......... (former nation/state/empire)
......................
(World, Africa) [8698190]
Sources and Contributors:
Gao Empire..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 17 May 2017
Songhai Empire..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
.............................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 17 May 2017
.............................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
Songhay Empire..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 17 May 2017
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 17 May 2017
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
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