Kingdom of Ife

Overview

Ifẹ̀ is an ancient Yoruba city in south-western Nigeria founded sometime between the years 1000 BC and 500 BC. By 900 AD, the city had become an important West African emporium producing sophisticated art forms. The city is located in present-day Osun State. Ifẹ̀ is about 218 kilometers northeast of Lagos with a population of over 500,000 people, which is the highest in Osun State according to population census of 2006.

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Borders & accuracy

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

• SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
• DETAILhand-traced-from:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ife
• SNAPSHOT1300
• POLITY TYPEtributary

Ife (Ile-Ife) Yoruba kingdom c. 12th-15th c.: forest belt of present-day Osun, Ekiti, Ondo states (SW Nigeria).

Also during this period

No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.

• Mongol Conquests1206–1368
  World-changing · 40M dead
• Mongol Conquest of China1205–79
  World-changing · 20M dead
• Mongol Conquest of Song Dynasty1205–79
  World-changing · 15M dead
• Timurid Invasions1368–1405
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• Portuguese Conquest of Brazil1500–1750
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• American Indian Wars1500–1800
  World-changing · 5.0M dead