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18. Mai 2024 · Despite having been dead for 350 years, Johannes Leo Africanus had decidedly bad luck in the twentieth century. His long treatise on Africa, one of the most important and enigmatic books of the Renaissance, might have been illuminated by the discovery in 1931 of a manuscript copy, but this find only deepened the mystery of the text ...
Vor einem Tag · Upon Leo Africanus's visit at the beginning of the 16th century, his descriptions of the territorial domains of Mali showed that it was still a kingdom of considerable size. However, from 1507 onwards neighboring states such as Diarra , Great Fulo and the Songhai Empire chipped away at Mali's borders.
10. Mai 2024 · In several accounts, it is possible to identify a sufficiently dense plant formation south of Larache, which, given its setting, could be the present Larache forest. In his Description of Africa (circa 1530), Leo Africanus speaks of “thick woods which shelter
Vor 2 Tagen · Perhaps most famous among the accounts written about Timbuktu is that by Leo Africanus, born El Hasan ben Muhammed el- Wazzan-ez-Zayyati in Granada in 1485. His family was among the thousands of Muslims expelled by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel after their reconquest of Spain in 1492.
Vor einem Tag · The 16th century geographer and diplomat Leo Africanus, who was born into a Muslim family in Granada and fled the Reconquista to Morocco, also says that the North Africans retained their own language after the Islamic conquest which he calls "Italian", which must refer to Romance.
26. Mai 2024 · Leo Africanus referred to a Berber phrase, “ger-n-ger,” which means “river of rivers,” as the possible origin of the name. Many people believe that the river’s name is derived from the Tuareg phrase “gher n gheren,” which also means “river of rivers.”.
25. Mai 2024 · Both Scipio Africanus and Leo Africanus derived their names from Africa, not the other way around. Africa was famously referred to as the “Dark Continent” by Welsh journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley. He saw the continent as mysterious, with its landscapes and cultures largely unknown to outsiders until the late nineteenth century.
