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From 1625 to 1900, 12 kings succeeded one another at the head of the powerful Kingdom of Abomey. With the exception of King ... Acre is a historic walled port-city with continuous settlement from the Phoenician period. The present city is characteristic of a ... Home of the prestigious Koranic Sankore University and other madrasas, Timbuktu was an intellectual and spiritual capital and a ... Tiya is among the most important of the roughly 160 archaeological sites discovered so far in the Soddo region, south of Addis ... A Phoenician trading-post that served as an outlet for the products of the African hinterland, Sabratha was part of the short-lived ... The mausoleum of Antiochus I (69--34 B.C.), who reigned over Commagene, a kingdom founded north of Syria and the Euphrates ...

Ghadamès, known as 'the pearl of the desert', stands in an oasis. It is one of the oldest pre-Saharan cities and an outstanding ... James Island and Related Sites present a testimony to the main periods and facets of the encounter between Africa and Europe ... This ancient university town north-west of Madrid was first conquered by the Carthaginians in the 3rd century B.C. It then became ... The island of Gorée lies off the coast of Senegal, opposite Dakar. From the 15th to the 19th century, it was the largest slave-trading ... In the 16th and 17th centuries, the fortress-city of Fasil Ghebbi was the residence of the Ethiopian emperor Fasilides and his ... The 160000 ha Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape of dramatic mountainous desert in north-western South Africa ...