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Landmark Africa religious

Great Mosque of Djenné

1240 CE – still standing

World's largest mud-brick building, heart of West African Islamic learning

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Great Mosque of Djenné 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–1200 CE)
  2. Mali (1279 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Songhai (1492 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1650 CE–1700 CE)
  5. Segu (1715 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  6. Kaarta (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. Tukulor Caliphate (1880 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. French West Africa (1900 CE–1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. French Sudan (1945 CE) Border precision: Defined
  10. Mali (1960 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Africa at the time

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Royal Hill of Ambohimanga

1500 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Algeria

Founded 1900 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Sand War (Algeria–Morocco)

1963 CE

Trade route · Africa

East African Coastal Trade

900 CE – 1505 CE

Landmark · Africa

Robben Island

1658 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Angola

Attested 1815 CE – 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Nigerian Civil War (Biafra)

1967 CE – 1970 CE

Trade route · Africa

Atlantic Middle Passage

1600 CE – 1850 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1240 CE and 2026 CE.

1250 CE Thulamela 1390 CE Wars of the Kingdom of Kongo 1421 CE Larabanga Mosque 1464 CE Wars of the Songhai Empire 1495 CE Tomb of the Askia

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 Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Sundiata Figure · West Africa 1217 CE – 1255 CE Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing
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