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Kingdoms & polities · c. 1800–1870s
The Condo Confederation
A multi-ethnic commercial state centred on Bopolu, dominating the road from the interior to the sea.
Kingdoms & polities · c. 1235–c. 1600
The Mali Empire and the forest frontier
The western Sudanese empire whose southern commercial frontier reached the northern edge of the Liberian forest.
Kingdoms & polities · c. 17th–19th centuries
The Mende frontier
The southward Mende expansion that shaped the northern Vai and Gola country and carried Poro and Sande with it.