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- Ghana Empire - Sahelian kingdom and early economic empire in northwestern Africa.
- Mali, Ancient Crossroads of Africa - A brief history of the Empire of Mali, and the role of Sundjiata and Mansa Musa.
- A Brief History of the Songhai Empire - An overview of the empire.
- Civilizations in Africa: Mali - An account of the Malian Empire, 750-1430 CE.
- African Empires - A timeline from 1st - 15th centuries AD/CE, from Central Oregon Community College.
- Kingdom of Songhay - Leo Africanus, an Arab traveler visited Timbuktu in the Kingdom of Songhay early in the 1500s; a translation of his description.
- Sundiata and Mansa Musa on the Web - A categorized guide to resources about Sundiata, Mansa Musa, and the Mali Empire; includes links to primary source materials.
- The Invasion of Morocco in 1591 and the Saadian Dynasty - An account of the Moroccan invasion of the invasion of the Empire of Songhai in 1591.
- Songhay - A brief history of the Songhay Empire, 1464-1612 CE.
- The World of the Mande - History, art and ritual in the Mande culture, including discussions of caste and class, roles, and cosmogony.
Wikipedia Articles
- Nomadic empire - Nomadic Empires, sometimes also called Steppe Empires, Central or Inner Asian Empires, are the empires erected by the bow wielding, horse riding, Eurasian nomads, from Classical Antiquity (Scythia) to the Early Modern era (Dzungars).
- Catholicoses/Maphryonos of the East - In the early centuries the Christians in the Persian and the Roman Empires were subject to religious persecutions, so the Church spread its wings without the help of any of the imperial authorities. After the Roman Emperor accepted Christianity in 315, the church in Rome was spared from atrocities, but from then onwards the Persian rulers adopted a much more ...
- Sassanid Empire - ... for the second Persian Empire (226–651). The Sassanid dynasty was founded by Ardashir I after defeating the last Parthian (Arsacid) king, Artabanus IV ( Ardavan) and ended when the last Sassanid Shahanshah (King of Kings), Yazdegerd III (632–651), lost a 14-year struggle to drive out the early Islamic Caliphate, the first of the Islamic empires.
- Teodor Parnicki - Teodor Parnicki (1908-1988) was a Polish writer, notable for his historical novels. He is especially renown for pieces of prose related to early mediaeval Middle East, the late Roman and the Byzantine empires.
- Peshmerga - ... peshmarga or peshmerge (Kurdish: pêşmerge) is the term used by Kurds to refer to armed Kurdish fighters. Literally meaning "those who face death" (pêş front + merg death e is) the peshmerga forces of Kurdistan have been around since the advent of the Kurdish independence movement in the early 1920s, following the collapse of the Ottoman and Qajar empires which had jointly ruled over the area.