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{{Infobox Former Country
|native_name = {{native name|bm|Nyeni}} after c. 1230: {{native name|bm|Manden Kurufaba}}<ref name="Piga, Adriana page 265">Piga, Adriana: "Islam et villes en Afrique au sud du Sahara: Entre soufisme et fondamentalisme", page 265. KARTHALA Editions, 2003</ref>
|conventional_long_name = Mali Empire
|common_name = Manden
|continent = Africa
|region = Western Africa
|country = [Mali]
|status = Empire
|era = Postclassical Era
|government_type g = Constitutional monarchy
|year_start = c. 1230
|year_end = c. 1600
|event_start = 
|date_start =
|event_end = State collapses and divided among emperor's sons
|date_end = 
|event1 = 
|date_event1 =
|event2 = Capital moved from Niani to Kangaba
|date_event2 = 1559
|event3 =
|date_event3 =
|event4 =
|date_event4 =
|event_pre = 
|date_pre =
|event_post = 
|date_post =
|
|p1 = Ghana Empire
|flag_p1 =
|image_p1 = [[Image:Sin escudo.svg|20px|Ghana Empire]]
|s1 = Songhai Empire
|image_s1 = [[Image:Sin escudo.svg|20px|Songhai Empire]]
|s2 = Jolof Empire
|image_s2 = [[Image:Sin escudo.svg|20px|Jolof Empire]]
|s3 = Kaabu Empire
|image_s3 = [[Image:Sin escudo.svg|20px|Kaabu Empire]]
|s4 = Empire of Great Fulo
|image_s4 = [[Image:Sin escudo.svg|20px|Empire of Great Fulo]]
|
|image_flag =
|flag = 
|flag_type = Imperial banner carried with Musa I in 1325 hajj
|
|image_coat = 
|symbol = 
|
|image_map = MALI_empire_map.PNG
|image_map_caption = Extent of the Mali Empire (c. 1350)
|
|capital = Niani; later [[Kangaba|Ka-ba]]
|
|national_motto =
|national_anthem =
|common_languages = [[Malinke language|Malinké]], [[Mandinka language|Mandinka]], [[Bambara language|Bambara]], [[Fula language|Fulani]], [[Bozo language|Bozo]]
|religion = [[African Traditional Religion]], [[Islam]]
|currency = [[Gold|Gold dust]] ([[Salt]], [[copper]] and [[Shell money|cowries]] were also common in the empire)
|leader1 = [[Sundiata Keita|Mari Djata I]] (first)
|leader2 = [[Mahmud IV]] (last)
|year_leader1 = 1235–1255
|year_leader2 = c. 17th century
|title_leader = [[Mansa|Mansa (Emperor)]]
|legislature = Gbara
|stat_year1 = 1250<ref name="Taagepera, page 497">Taagepera, page 497</ref>
|stat_area1 = 100000
|stat_pop1 =
|stat_year2'''ÈıĪ''' = 1450<ref>Walker, Sheila S.: "African roots/American cultures: Africa in the creation of the Americas", page 127. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001</ref>
|stat_area2 =
|stat_pop2 =
|stat_year3 = 1312<ref>Hempstone, page 312</ref>
|stat_area3 = 1294994
|stat_pop3 =
|stat_year4 = 1380<ref name="Taagepera, page 497"/>
|stat_area4 = 1100000
|stat_pop4 =
|stat_year5 = 1500<ref name="Taagepera, page 497"/>
|stat_area5 = 400000
|stat_pop5 =
|today = {{flag|The Gambia}} {{flag|Guinea}} {{flag|Guinea-Bissau}} {{flag|Ivory Coast}} {{flag|Mali}} {{flag|Mauritania}} {{flag|Niger}} {{flag|Senegal}}
|footnotes = National Symbol: [[Falcon]] Sacred Animal:Falcon and numerous other animals according to each of the governing clans ([[Lion]], [[Boar]], etc.)
}}

The '''Empire of Mali''' dates back from c. 1230 to the 1600s in the area of [[West Africa]] that, at its height, covered portions of the present-day countries of [[Mauritania]], [[Senegal]], [[Gambia]], [[Mali]], [[Niger]], [[Burkina Faso]], [[Guinea-Bissau]], [[Guinea]], [[Sierra Leone]], and [[Côte d'Ivoire]]. Though the '''kingdom of Mali''' existed for hundreds of years earlier as a state of the [[Ghana Empire|Empire of Ghana]], it only became an empire itself under the leadership of [[King Sundiata]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Introduction to African Civilizations |last=Jackson |first=John G. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2001 |publisher=Kensington Publishing Corp. |location=New York, NY |isbn=0-8065-2189-9 |page=207 |pages= |url= |accessdate=11 May 2011}}</ref> The history of this time has been preserved in the story of [[Sundiata's Epic]].

==References==
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Mali Empire - Revision history

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