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Ghana–Almoravid Conflict

1054 CE – 1083 CE · 29 years

The Almoravids seized the Saharan trade town of Awdaghust in 1054 and pressured the Ghana Empire through the following decades, traditionally credited with capturing Koumbi Saleh around 1076. Modern scholars dispute the scale of the conquest but agree Almoravid pressure coincided with Ghana's Islamization and decline.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Almoravid dynasty (Abu Bakr ibn Umar, Yusuf ibn Tashfin)
  • Ghana Empire (Tunka Manin)

Key moments

Defining events in the Ghana–Almoravid Conflict.

  1. 1054 Fall of Awdaghust
  2. 1076 Reported capture of Koumbi Saleh
  3. 1083 Ghanaian request for Almoravid aid

Elsewhere in Africa at the time

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Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1054 CE and 1083 CE.

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And in the rest of the world

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

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