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Landmark Africa archaeological

Gedi Ruins

1100 CE – 1600 CE · 500 years

Mysterious Swahili stone town on the Kenyan coast, abandoned in the 17th century with a palace, mosque, and houses lost in coastal forest

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Ruins of Gedi on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1000 CE)
  2. Islamic city-states (1100 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1650 CE–1700 CE)
  4. Zanzibar (1715 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  5. Sultanate of Zanzibar (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  6. British East Africa (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. Kenya (1920 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Africa at the time

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Landmark · Africa

Volubilis

300 BCE – 1200 CE

Polity · Africa

Khoiasan

Attested 1500 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · Africa

Almohad Conquests

1121 CE – 1269 CE

Trade route · Africa

East African Coastal Trade

900 CE – 1505 CE

Landmark · Africa

Royal Hill of Ambohimanga

1500 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Empire of Ghana

100 CE – 1200 CE

Conflict · Africa

Wars of the Mali Empire

1235 CE – 1599 CE

Trade route · Africa

Atlantic Middle Passage

1600 CE – 1850 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1100 CE and 1600 CE.

1100 CE Kanem-Bornu Wars 1100 CE Great Zimbabwe & Mutapa Wars 1100 CE Great Zimbabwe 1100 CE Timbuktu 1121 CE Almohad Conquests

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Machu Picchu Landmark · Americas 1450 CE – still standing Ottoman Empire Polity · Europe 1299 CE – 1922 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Al-Ghazali Figure · Khorasan / Seljuk Empire 1058 CE – 1111 CE Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Landmark · Europe 350 BCE – 1404 CE
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