The sandstone towers of the Hombori mountains (the Hombori Tondo) rise from the Gourma plains on the road between the Niger bend and the Bandiagara cliffs.
No written source mentions Hombori before the Songhay chronicles of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; on 1 January 1200 its people are not known by name (later Songhay-speaking villages, with Kurumba and Tellem-related peoples to the south-west). Shown as a point.
Who holds it
- Title
- not known
- Since
- not known
- Confidence
- low
Lord in 1200
Not known: no lord is attested for 1200.
How things stand that morning
Within the Gourma peoples (Gourma).
Communities
not known for 1200
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: No written or dated archaeological evidence found for 1200.
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.