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APPENDIX IX. 
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 
OF THE 
HISTOKY OF SONGHAY AND THE NEIGHBOURING KINGDOMS. 
Songhay. 
A.D. 
A.H. 
Neighbouring Kingdoms. 
Za Alayamin (Za el Yemeni) comes 
to Kukia (El Bekri's Kugha, 
Ca da Mosto's Cochia), a very 
ancient place, and the older resi- 
dence of Songhay, and founds the 
eldest dynasty of the Za. The 
Libyan origin of this dynasty, of 
which that of the Sonni was a 
mere continuation, is very dis- 
tinctly intimated by Leo Afri- 
canus, in the words " della stirpe 
di Libya." } 
300 
Begin, 
of 7th 
century. 
679-80 
Beginning 
of 
Hejra. 
GO 
The kingdom of Ghana, or Gha- 
nata, the central portion of 
which comprised the present 
province of Baghena, founded 
by Wakayamagha or mangha 
(mangho = great ? Magha = 
Mohammed ? ) about three 
centuries before the Hejra ; 
the ruling family whites 
(Leuceethiopes ? Fulbe ?). At 
the commencement of the 
Hejra twenty-two kings had 
ruled.* 
Already at this early date an 
extensive Mohammedan quar- 
ter existed in Ghanata, con- 
taining 12 mosques.f There 
is considerable doubt with re- 
gard to the accuracy of the 
date. 
* A'hmed Baba, J. L. O. S., vol. ix. p. 526. t Memoires de la Soc. de Geogr. vol. iii. p. 1. 
t Descr. dell' Africa, lib. vii. c. 1. 
