ONE LAND · 7 ATLASES
History of Mali in maps
Mali as it appears in 7 interactive history atlases, from 1890 to 2015: Mali. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
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What was Mali before it was Mali? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History atlases — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.
Mali · Industrial Revolution
| Colony or dependency — the opening position | |
| Colony or dependency |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Mali · Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia
MEIJI JAPAN AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Mali · WWI
| Entente-aligned & imperial territories — the opening position |
Mali · Road to WW2
| Colonial empires & possessions — the opening position |
ROAD TO WW2: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Mali · Cold War
| NATO & core Western allies — the opening position | |
| Non-aligned & neutral |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Mali (French Sudan) · Decolonization of Africa
French Sudan became Mali in 1960 after the Mali Federation with Senegal collapsed within weeks. Modibo Keïta pursued a radical socialist, pan-Africanist path and broke with France, before being overthrown in a 1968 coup that began decades of military rule. A vast, poor Sahelian state, landlocked and commodity-dependent — the structural inheritance of the interior colonies.
| French-ruled — the opening position | |
| Independent Africa |
DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Mali · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Authoritarian, one-party or colonial rule — the opening position | |
| Right won in law | |
| No reform yet / outside this story | |
| Right won in law |
FEMINISM AND THE TUNISIAN REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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