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Songhai empire

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Songhai empire

 or Songhay empire

Ancient Muslim state, West Africa. Centred on the middle Niger River in what is now central Mali, it eventually extended to the Atlantic coast and into Niger and Nigeria. Established by the Songhai people c. AD 800, it reached its greatest extent in the 16th century before falling to Moroccan forces in 1591. Its important cities were Gao and Timbuktu.
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Other great empires once existed--the British Empire, the Roman Empire, the Songhai Empire, for instance.
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