Peoples & MigrationThe 12th century

Peoples & Migration in the 12th century

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 12th century — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, all of it in 1100. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
2
Nations
2
Earliest
1100
Latest
1100

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. Africa

    Benin

    Aja migrations from Tado

    Aja-speaking peoples spread, by oral tradition, eastward from Tado on the Mono River across the coastal plain of southern Benin, founding a cluster of kin-based kingdoms including Allada.

    Era: The Aja migrations and the kingdoms of Allada and Porto-Novo

    Sources: Benin — History · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Porto-Novo · Wikipedia, History of the Kingdom of Dahomey · Wikipedia

  2. Africa

    Gabon

    Myènè peoples settle the coast

    Myènè-speaking peoples including the Mpongwe at the estuary, the Orungu at Cape Lopez and the Nkomi at Fernan Vaz settled the Gabon coast, organised in clans well placed to trade with the interior and the sea.

    Era: The Myènè coast, the Fang, and the Atlantic trade

    Sources: History of Gabon · Encyclopædia Britannica, History of Gabon · Wikipedia, Gabon — People · GlobalSecurity.org