Surame

Surame was the capital of the Kebbi Empire in the 15th and 16th centuries. The impressive remains of the city are 40 kilometers northwest of Sokoto in northwest Nigeria . They consist of an outer and an inner rampart , which is still up to seven meters high today. The upper part of the wall consists partly of layered stones. Within the city wall , the remains of a royal palace , a mosque and individual houses with their small curtain walls can be seen. The outer rampart extends over a length of nine kilometers.

literature

• Perey G. Harris: Sokoto Provincial Gazetteer , Sokoto 1938 (archival document, Sokoto), pp. 34–37.
• Sidney J. Hogben and Anthony Kirk-Greene: The Emirates of Northern Nigeria , London 1966, pp. 242-3.
• Dierk Lange: "The early Kebbi and Mali", magazine of the German Oriental Society , 141 (1991), 139–166.

Web links

• Information about Surame on UNESCO.org

Coordinates: 13 ° 5 ′ 15 ″  N , 4 ° 53 ′ 55 ″  E