Africans Inwards Medieval England

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"></span></b> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHIkNm9KnhR9gxPNZQbhAmt1CTFyJ-v0cg2kABRyJXT6dbAQoG1IFvd-C5xcH9hGIQP0MPSkWPIERps-xbX_ZKBjswBnqXpQGJ-oie-kRbwD4C2qb3KaxeDBo9ojS5yhkhpnI-57X53uk/s1600/African+Knights+in+Medieval+Europe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHIkNm9KnhR9gxPNZQbhAmt1CTFyJ-v0cg2kABRyJXT6dbAQoG1IFvd-C5xcH9hGIQP0MPSkWPIERps-xbX_ZKBjswBnqXpQGJ-oie-kRbwD4C2qb3KaxeDBo9ojS5yhkhpnI-57X53uk/s1600/African+Knights+in+Medieval+Europe.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Images of artistic renderings of African descent knights of medieval Europe</td></tr> </tbody></table> Human skeletal remains were constitute in a friary inward Ipswich, Suffolk, England inward the 1990s with recent carbon testing dating the remains to the European medieval menses of 1190-1300. Scientific experts convey confirmed that it is the oldest fossil tape bear witness of the African presence inward Medieval Europe. The European Medieval Period, every bit good called The Middle Ages, is to a greater extent than frequently than non dated past times Western historians every bit running from the 5th-15th centuries.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5jr4wRyDKnkbcFMIuyWwq7Od8CAlu50xg_-pDw8ddFV4VlyrUaxNFs_xgxKHelCvoFUWXVjeZZl-0druJrqVr8Q0XfTFaV8gnkvmtvpm0KJ1Gm9gNf9JpNayW-J28Qwj79lB6HCBnuHA/s1600/EnglandSuffolk.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5jr4wRyDKnkbcFMIuyWwq7Od8CAlu50xg_-pDw8ddFV4VlyrUaxNFs_xgxKHelCvoFUWXVjeZZl-0druJrqVr8Q0XfTFaV8gnkvmtvpm0KJ1Gm9gNf9JpNayW-J28Qwj79lB6HCBnuHA/s320/EnglandSuffolk.png" tt="true" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Map of the Suffolk Region of England</span></b></div> <br /> Isotopic forensic testing conducted past times experts from the University of Dundee Scotland identified the archaeological remains at Ipswich every bit a human of African descent, probable from the northern regional surface area of the African continent, inward a reason right away called Tunisia inward the Atlas Mountains region. Body carbon dating was every bit good performed past times experts for the History Cold Case plan on BBC2, which volition unloosen a documentary tidings characteristic that includes skillful facial reconstruction from the skull remains. The remains were constitute buried on consecrated religious grounds at a friary inward the Suffolk portion of the United Kingdom.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiptJED2aNivsmBEKO5eS3k4js7tKPLo4OL4jDuwbEmlIETIVtE2iQ5PM1oHcn5fCVLzldbG87QzlAvS-R5HwSQxxuY7jaaXOfJJLn_WZgK9gRH6k51AiTw212DeFfya2K7TEM3wSm8ZG0/s1600/Tower_of_the_Great_Mosque_of_Kairouan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiptJED2aNivsmBEKO5eS3k4js7tKPLo4OL4jDuwbEmlIETIVtE2iQ5PM1oHcn5fCVLzldbG87QzlAvS-R5HwSQxxuY7jaaXOfJJLn_WZgK9gRH6k51AiTw212DeFfya2K7TEM3wSm8ZG0/s320/Tower_of_the_Great_Mosque_of_Kairouan.jpg" tt="true" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Image: The Mosque of Uqba, Tunisia</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> In ancient times, this portion was populated by a people called Phoenicians (/fɨˈnɪʃə/) by English linguistic communication speakers and Canaan (Kana`an) in the Hebrew language. Later European as well as Arab settlers came into the region, such as the <a href="http://ancient-military-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/hannibal-and-the-military-history-of-carthage">Roman Empire</a> nether the Eastern Germanic Tribe called Vandals, as well as the Ottoman Empire. The Mosque of Uqba, every bit good known every bit the Great Mosque of Kairouan, was founded inward 670 B.C.E. in Tunisia (pictured above). It is known every bit the oldest mosque inward what is called past times Arab settlers as the Muslim West.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS0Nkt8O1CIbDWUM1pdRZL8BYtomROu7csDPLZX1sbovRBe3HZ95gdK1cjZ6IfvwmZkBeLUMAHS8QuOsm8gjoyJ2LWGkRwia5iqa2PuzY30ZOLvJBsqaqoMtNLg26XdjSpvckezQ0r3FI/s1600/medieval+africa+map" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS0Nkt8O1CIbDWUM1pdRZL8BYtomROu7csDPLZX1sbovRBe3HZ95gdK1cjZ6IfvwmZkBeLUMAHS8QuOsm8gjoyJ2LWGkRwia5iqa2PuzY30ZOLvJBsqaqoMtNLg26XdjSpvckezQ0r3FI/s320/medieval+africa+map" tt="true" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Map of <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=african-kingdoms-medieval-warfare" target="_blank">Medieval Africa</a></span></b></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4PKZYtFbAZt9RsV-8qJTsOZW2x7z2s91DxyxVQLJqjiE_a417ZeG9LDtR0u1C4XhRhoWDY_njnlKW4j-kAhXZxlphqY18b8ZBu22HTDZo76oUpI4DRrBlvr9YZHOfg_fxxtj11C0cVOU/s1600/Canaan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4PKZYtFbAZt9RsV-8qJTsOZW2x7z2s91DxyxVQLJqjiE_a417ZeG9LDtR0u1C4XhRhoWDY_njnlKW4j-kAhXZxlphqY18b8ZBu22HTDZo76oUpI4DRrBlvr9YZHOfg_fxxtj11C0cVOU/s320/Canaan.jpg" tt="true" width="237" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: x-small;">Photo: master copy reason of people Canaan along the Nile river</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: x-small;">before </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: x-small;">migrating throughout the African continent</span> </b></div> <br /> "We don't know much well-nigh the migration of ordinary people," said Jim Bolton, a historian at Queen Mary, University of London.  "I believe that this is the start physical bear witness of Africans inward medieval England." Prior to this discovery, however, the oldest known humans of <a href="http://statues.suite101.com/article.cfm/the-african-renaissance-monument-in-dakar-senegal-africa">African</a> descent to alive inward this portion of Europe were identified from the tax records. This was a couplet whose lifetime dated approximately 150 years afterwards the African human at Ipswich.</div>

Africans Inwards Medieval England

  Images of artistic renderings of African descent knights of medieval Europe Human skeletal remains were constitute in a friary inward Ipswich, Suffolk, England inward the 1990s with recent carb…

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Queen Amina Of Zazzau: A Westward African Warrior Queen

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHY-iEdlVgLlrNN29C7I3twdjwssoDeSdkNigwQ2RIWDpAZo33Iu_qyi1TT9Xe3YfOkwIJaAUD1KYpnjX4BvcKTp4TL3De-azCrVsWV_w-OQVEeDWd_RaejgpRk9bdPykmtfXZPOzXdGY/s1600/Queen+Amina+elder+daughter+of+Bakwa+Turunku+Zazzau+Kingdom.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHY-iEdlVgLlrNN29C7I3twdjwssoDeSdkNigwQ2RIWDpAZo33Iu_qyi1TT9Xe3YfOkwIJaAUD1KYpnjX4BvcKTp4TL3De-azCrVsWV_w-OQVEeDWd_RaejgpRk9bdPykmtfXZPOzXdGY/s400/Queen+Amina+elder+daughter+of+Bakwa+Turunku+Zazzau+Kingdom.JPG" width="332" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image of Queen Amina of the Zazzau Kingdom of West Africa</td></tr> </tbody></table> Queen Amina (also known every bit Queen Aminatu), was the elderberry immature lady of Queen Bakwa Turunku, the founder of the Zazzau Kingdom inwards 1536. Some scholars appointment Queen Amina's reign to close 1549, every bit heir apparent afterwards the decease of her mother. This medieval African kingdom was located inwards the percentage straight off known every bit the Kaduna State inwards the north-central percentage of Nigeria, working capital alphabetic lineament at the modern metropolis of Zaria. Zaria (aka <span class="st">Birnin <i>Zaria</i>) was named afterwards Queen Amina's younger sis Zariya, and</span> is where the Royal Palace of Zaria resided.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN-KddqRgV0Swwura4T63VQ7x3Mt7ilIAD4j5rhZtLriYnR2fGOW8VXGxTcamDlvQ7JyfMgFX8M4YOl50D69zToTylxMBpkdWLVxmPJn3OfUd0xCBN72cGDyeapJx32Bcs33JQHVVgvxM/s1600/Queen+Amina.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN-KddqRgV0Swwura4T63VQ7x3Mt7ilIAD4j5rhZtLriYnR2fGOW8VXGxTcamDlvQ7JyfMgFX8M4YOl50D69zToTylxMBpkdWLVxmPJn3OfUd0xCBN72cGDyeapJx32Bcs33JQHVVgvxM/s1600/Queen+Amina.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> The earliest commentator to cite Queen Amina is Muhammed Bello's history<i> Ifaq al-Maysur</i>, composed roughly 1836. Queen Amina is too mentioned inwards the <a href="http://www.cifas.us/sites/cifas.drupalgardens.com/files/1984b_KanoChron_BC.pdf" target="_blank">Kano Chronicle</a>, a well-regarded in addition to detailed history of the metropolis of Kano in addition to the surrounding Hausa people. It was composed inwards the slow 19th century in addition to incorporated before oral histories before the Fulani jihad of 1804-1810. It included king-lists of the diverse Hausa kingdoms.<br /> <br /> Known every bit a corking military machine strategist, the cavalry-trained Queen Amina fought many wars that expanded this southern-most Hausa kingdom. According to the <a href="http://www.siiasi.org/Chapter%207%20_Infaaq_.pdf" target="_blank">Sankore Institute of Islamic - African Studies International</a>, a non-profit, non-political educational institution, reporting on this percentage of the Hausa:<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <i>These 7 regions witnessed many odd in addition to foreign events. The commencement to constitute authorities amid them, every bit it has been claimed, was Amina, the immature lady of the Amir of Zakzak. She made military machine assaults upon these lands until she proclaimed herself over them past times force. The lands of Katsina in addition to Kano were forced to manus over levy to her. She too made incursions into the lands of Bauchi until she reached the Atlantic Ocean to the due south in addition to west. She died inwards a house called Attaagar. It was for this argue that the kingdom of Zakzak was the most extensive amid the kingdoms of Hausa, since Bauchi included many regions. </i></blockquote> Here, it appears that Zakzak is Zazzau, in addition to the reference is to Queen Amina. <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQF6x1jzNOjurN8GN5CsYVTtFee3FtQwdQXzeupwi2JsaytSAa5SrWCvGX_9Lk7asc1tAH7uei_zl4V2RgRmEEYSFTMlcY4P_uoGvtkIyZabEt0uXPRcBdZBh8FVMc4eHHXQG_5PEMhOU/s320/Queen+Amina+Sculpture.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="240" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Public sculpture of the warrior Queen Amina inwards Nigeria</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Queen Amina is a legend amid the Hausa people for her military machine exploits. She controlled the merchandise routes inwards the region, erecting a network of commerce inside the corking earthen walls that surrounded Hausa cities inside her dominion. According to the Kano Chronicle, she conquered every bit far every bit Nupe in addition to Kwarafa, ruling for 34 years. </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK7N1faCmValGTijiAEx1Rjsx9nY5f8YijX5Dj4rgEOCgRvO3hE9-jHEWG7jZzYZRWXLQybgCdLEIUjoSgJlX0SI0McT9ZMQnv-S9u-Ik4wKGl3UIetCrTPCQRJLq3_i7HrFwEx7vZxQ8/s1600/Queen+Amina+of+Zaria+African+stamp.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK7N1faCmValGTijiAEx1Rjsx9nY5f8YijX5Dj4rgEOCgRvO3hE9-jHEWG7jZzYZRWXLQybgCdLEIUjoSgJlX0SI0McT9ZMQnv-S9u-Ik4wKGl3UIetCrTPCQRJLq3_i7HrFwEx7vZxQ8/s320/Queen+Amina+of+Zaria+African+stamp.jpg" width="203" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Commemorative postage stamp of Queen of Amina of Zaria.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> By 1805, the percentage was captured past times the Fulani during the Fulani jihad. By 1901, Frederick Lugard led British forces in addition to captured Zaria every bit a protectorate state. This is the same twelvemonth that it is reported that Zaria sought British protection against slave raids from the Kontagora region. After a Zaria magaji (representative) murdered the British Captain Moloney inwards 1902 at Keffi, the British stripped the emirate of most of its vassal states. Since Nigeria's independence from the British inwards 1960, Zaria is i of its largest traditional emirates.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRU7x54oltWkhEVd0bQPrr9WBRl4tTzxJ2OlE2X2CC5xC6TGZHz8aVRKC2VoinzHigH9hhi7gW4kuU-_6RWXXLMWqThXXIk3dCk9VyTQ_koITICzgccNsacE-qgvBGdIgB4-N7nRY7T_U/s1600/Photo+Zaria+Nigeria.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRU7x54oltWkhEVd0bQPrr9WBRl4tTzxJ2OlE2X2CC5xC6TGZHz8aVRKC2VoinzHigH9hhi7gW4kuU-_6RWXXLMWqThXXIk3dCk9VyTQ_koITICzgccNsacE-qgvBGdIgB4-N7nRY7T_U/s320/Photo+Zaria+Nigeria.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: Gate to the palace of the emir of Zazzau</td></tr> </tbody></table> Zaria metropolis was originally surrounded past times walls built past times Queen Amina, but those walls bring since been removed. The to a higher house shown entrance is to the palace of the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11418542" target="_blank">Emir of Zazzau</a>. The emir counsels over a percentage larger than the metropolis of Zaria. Despite the rising of the nation-states inwards Africa, the emirs exert meaning ability inside the percentage in addition to represents the continuation of the traditional leadership of the historical kingdom-states.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwlWcuKdqJjQh42rckOvcahjHCK8N-XxFUlz0vX181djbCp1za7RL0IHhrGZ86VsqHl5Ss7HdUmogAB5g9js5qGy0VggRHdCqi1eiOvQb381pWW_XfY7Ywahm6UUCXS5xkxP3m0p45oog/s1600/clay+houses+of+Zaria+Nigeria.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwlWcuKdqJjQh42rckOvcahjHCK8N-XxFUlz0vX181djbCp1za7RL0IHhrGZ86VsqHl5Ss7HdUmogAB5g9js5qGy0VggRHdCqi1eiOvQb381pWW_XfY7Ywahm6UUCXS5xkxP3m0p45oog/s320/clay+houses+of+Zaria+Nigeria.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: community inwards metropolis of Zaria, representing traditional Hausa architecture inwards Africa.</td></tr> </tbody></table> Zaria is habitation to Ahmadu Bello University, the largest academy inwards Nigeria in addition to the 2nd largest academy on the African continent. The academy is really prominent inwards the fields of Agriculture, Science, Finance, Medicine in addition to Law.</div>

Queen Amina Of Zazzau: A Westward African Warrior Queen

Image of Queen Amina of the Zazzau Kingdom of West Africa Queen Amina (also known every bit Queen Aminatu), was the elderberry immature lady of Queen Bakwa Turunku, the founder of the Zazzau King…

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