Tributary network · approximate300 CE – 1240 · 940 years

Ghana Empire

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Ghana Empire, also known as simply Ghana, Ghanata, or Wagadu, was an ancient western-Sahelian empire based in the modern-day southeast of Mauritania and western Mali.

Wikipedia: Ghana Empire·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Tributary network

A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps
SNAPSHOT1000
MATCHEDGhana Empire (Wagadu) c. 1000 CE
POLITY TYPEtributary

Wars of this empire5

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Almoravid Conquest of Ghana1076–77
Major conflict
Ghana Empire Soninkee Expansion700–800 CE
Significant
Ghana Empire Conflicts700 CE–1076
Significant
Ghana-Berber Wars900 CE–1000
Significant
Almoravid–Awdaghust Campaign1054–55
Significant

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 300 CE and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Ghana Empire (300 CE – 1240). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/africa-ghana-empire · Sources & methodology