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The Ghana Empire (c. 300 until c. 1235) was located in what is now southeastern Mauritania and western Mali. Complex societies had existed in the region since about 1500 BC, and around Ghana's core region since about 300 AD. When Ghana's ruling dynasty began is uncertain; it is first mentioned in documentary sources around 830 AD by Muá¸¥ammad ibn MÅ«sÄ al-KhwÄrizmÄ«.
The Ghana Empire was the best known and most powerful of the medieval trading empires in West Africa. Although the modern country of Ghana was named after the empire, ancient Ghana was located hundreds of miles north and west of modern Ghana, in an area that is now part of Mali and Mauritania.