Africa
Old capital city | Country, empire | From | Until | Change, reason |
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Ribeira Grande (now Cidade Velha) | Cape Verde | 1462? | 1770 | moved to Praia |
Grand Bassam | Côte d'Ivoire | 1893 | 1900 | moved to Bingerville |
Bingerville | Côte d'Ivoire | 1900 | 1933 | moved to Abidjan |
Abidjan | Côte d'Ivoire | 1933 | 1983 | moved to Yamoussoukro |
Fez | Morocco | ? | 1912 | Moved to Rabat |
Al-Fustat | Egypt | 641 | 750 | Moved to Al-Askar |
Al-Askar | Egypt | 905 | 969 | Moved to Cairo |
Otjimbingwe | German South-West Africa | 1886 | 1892 | moved to Windhoek |
Cape Coast | Ghana (Gold Coast) | 1664 | 1877 | moved to Accra |
Bolama | Guinea-Bissau | 1879 | 1941 | moved to Bissau |
Boe | Guinea-Bissau | 1973 | 1974 | moved back to Bissau |
Njimi | Kanem | fl. 11th Century | c.1396 | lost to Bulala invaders (eventually moved to Ngazargamu) |
Ngazargamu | Kanem-Bornu Empire | c.1472 | 1808 | lost to Fulani invaders (eventually moved to Kukawa) |
Kukawa | Kanem-Bornu Empire | 1814 | 1893 | Kingdom ceased to exist |
Lagos | Nigeria | 1914 | 1976 | moved to Abuja |
Igbo Ukwu | Kingdom of Nri | 1043 | 1911 | Nigeria |
Aneho | Togo | 1880s | 1897 | moved to Lomé |
Zomba | Malawi | 1880s | 1975 | moved to Lilongwe |
Dar es Salaam | Tanzania | 1961 | 1996 | moved to Dodoma |
Axum | Ethiopia | 50 AD | ? | city abandoned |
Debre Berhan | Ethiopia | 1456 | mid-1470s | Emperor returned to custom of a moving capital |
Gondar | Ethiopia | 1635 | late 19th century | moved to Addis Ababa |
See also List of Egyptian capitals.
Read more about this topic: List Of Former National Capitals
Famous quotes containing the word africa:
“Are you there, Africa with the bulging chest and oblong thigh? Sulking Africa, wrought of iron, in the fire, Africa of the millions of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars.”
—Jean Genet (19101986)
“What is Africa to me:
Copper sun or scarlet sea,
Jungle star or jungle track,
Strong bronzed men, or regal black
Women from whose loins I sprang
When the birds of Eden sang?”
—Countee Cullen (19031946)
“In Africa I had indeed found a sufficiently frightful kind of loneliness but the isolation of this American ant heap was even more shattering.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (18941961)