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Key

The pashalik's garrison (the Arma) The sultans of Morocco and their envoys The Songhay askias of Dendi bond — succession, office, alliance conflict — war, revolt, prosecution

Sources & method

  1. al-Sa'di, Tarikh es-Soudan, tr. O. Houdas (Paris, 1900): the pashas from Sulayman to 1655, the Dendi askias, the 1639 expedition and the 1646 restoration — source
  2. Tedzkiret en-Nisian (biographies of the pashas), tr. O. Houdas (Paris, 1901): Hammu ibn Abdallah, al-Shatuki and the end of the sermon for al-Mansur's line, 1659–1660 — source
  3. al-Sa'di, Ta'rikh al-Sudan, Arabic text ed. O. Houdas (Paris, 1898): the names in their own script — source
  4. Pashalik of Timbuktu — Wikipedia (the 1591 conquest, the pashas, local choice after 1612, the sermon for the Saadi sultans) — source
  5. Pachalik de Tombouctou — Wikipédia (the last 400-man contingent of 1618, after Marchat 1957) — source
  6. Rise of the Arma in Timbuktu — EBSCO Research Starters (pashas elected by the troops; the end of formal allegiance after 1659) — source
  7. Dendi Kingdom and Lulami — Wikipedia (the Songhay remnant state and its capital south of Say) — source
  8. Ahmad al-Mansur — Wikipedia (the invasion of 1590–91; death in 1603) — source
  9. Ahmed ibn Abi Mahalli — Wikipedia (the Mahdi who held Marrakesh, 1612–1613) — source
  10. Ahmad al-Abbas — Wikipedia (the last Saadi sultan, killed in 1659) — source
Method. The chain of people follows a sourced account of the polity, 1600–1660; every claim the narration makes was checked against the sources above. Borders: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), the c.1600 snapshot, simplified — schematic, the right states in roughly the right places. Territorial changes: modern provinces (Natural Earth) or later snapshots standing in for historical ones. Portraits: each credited with its author, licence and source on the readable page. Relief: Esri World Physical Map. Narration: Azure neural voice.
A narrated polity atlas · 1600–1660

Timbuktu, 1600–1660

How did the garrison Morocco sent to hold the Niger come to choose its own pashas, and to make kings in Dendi?
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