{
  "g": "h,empire,africa",
  "ns": "empires",
  "flag": "empires/mali.svg",
  "name": "Mali Empire",
  "now": "mali",
  "years": "1230–1670",
  "id": "mali-empire",
  "index": "c/mali:1230",
  "title": "Flag of the Mali Empire",
  "ratio": "3:2",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "red",
      "hex": "#d7073a",
      "cmyk": "0/97/73/16",
      "note": "The red field as depicted in medieval Catalan atlases."
    },
    {
      "color": "gold",
      "hex": "#ffcb00",
      "cmyk": "0/20/100/0",
      "note": "Inner gold cantle."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Mali Empire (c. 1230–1670) was a West African trading empire renowned for its gold and the pilgrimage of Mansa Musa to Mecca in 1324\n - **Construction:** a red field with a golden rectangular cantle at centre; reconstructed from the **Catalan Atlas (1375)**, which depicts Mansa Musa seated holding a golden orb beneath this banner\n - Note: medieval West African polities did not use national flags in the modern sense; this is a modern vexillological reconstruction based on European cartographic sources",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Mali Empire",
    "officialName": "Mali Empire (Manden Kurufaba)",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- Mansa Musa's Hajj of 1324 distributed so much gold through Cairo that it devalued the Egyptian dinar for a decade\n - Timbuktu, under Malian rule, became one of the great centres of Islamic learning with the Sankore Madrasah\n - The empire was absorbed by the rising Songhai Empire in the 15th century",
  "_name": "Mali Empire",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "mali-empire"
}