Arab merchants recorded the region in writing for the first time in the 9th and10th centuries, and it dominated the trans-Saharan trade in the Middle Ages. Mansakan Moussa, the most famous Mandingo ruler of Mali Empire, has gained worldwide recognition for his great wealth, knowledge and civilization. Ibn battuta, a scholar and traveler from North Africa, visited the region at 1352. He said that black people have some admirable qualities. They are seldom unfair, and they are more wronged than others. Their country is very safe. Whether tourists or residents have nothing to worry about here, robbers or violent elements.
Since the beginning of the13rd century, in Kouroukan Fouga, Mali's constitution has been the law of the country. The Sanghai Empire, songhay, was named after their king gained formal control of the empire to rule the region.
/kloc-in the 6th century, with the passage of time, this area began to be invaded and plundered by Morocco and Portugal. By the end of 16, with constant attacks, the empire collapsed, was conquered and claimed to belong to Portugal.
1588, the plaintiff took the Portuguese throne, Antonio. Before that, he sold the exclusive right to operate gambia river to a British businessman. The money was confirmed by Queen Elizabeth I's charter. 16 18, King James I of England granted the Royal African Company the franchise to trade with Gambia and Gold Coast (now Ghana).
From 165 1 to 16 1, Gambia is a colony of the Polish-Lithuanian Federation; It was bought by Jacob kettler of the Duke of Culan. At that time, Kurland in modern Latvia was the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Federation.
/kloc-British colonists invaded at the end of 0/6. 16 18, the British established a colonial stronghold on James Island at the mouth of the Gambia. /kloc-At the end of 0/7, French colonists also reached the north bank of Gambia River. Since then, during the period of 100, Britain and France have waged many wars for Gambia and Senegal. 1783 Treaty of Versailles allocated the two sides of gambia river to Britain and Senegal to France. 1889, Britain and France reached an agreement to demarcate the present Gambia border. 1959, Britain convened the Gambia Constitutional Convention and agreed to establish a "semi-autonomous government" in Gambia. 1964 Britain agreed to Gambia's independence in February 1965. 1970 On April 24th, Gambia announced the establishment of the Republic of China, with Jia Wala, leader of the People's Progressive Party, as president. 1On July 22nd, 994, some junior officers launched a mutiny. Jia Wala and the People's Progressive Party, which had been in power for nearly 30 years, were overthrown by a military coup.
1994 Before the military coup, Gambia was ruled by President Doda Kairaba Jia Wala, who was re-elected five times. The relatively stable situation in the Jia Wala era was first destroyed by the failed armed coup of 198 1.
After the attempted coup, Senegal and Gambia signed an allied treaty of 1982. The goal of Senegambia Union is to deal with the armed forces of the two countries and unify their economies and currencies. 1989 Gambia withdrew from the confederacy.
1In July 1994, the Provisional Management Committee of the Armed Forces seized power in a military coup, overthrew the government of Jia Wala, and its chairman, Captain Yahya Jammeh, became the head of state. AFPRC announced the transition plan of returning to democratic civilian government. The Provisional Electoral Council was established in 1996 and is responsible for holding national elections. 1997 was transformed into an independent election commission, which was responsible for registering voters, holding elections and holding referendums. At the end of 2000/kloc-0 and the beginning of 2002, Gambia completed the complete presidential, house of representatives and regional elections. Foreign observers considered the elections to be free, fair and transparent, although there were still some shortcomings. The re-elected President Yahya Jammeh was sworn in again on 30 February 2006. The Alliance for Patriotic Adjustment and Construction still maintains a strong majority in Congress, especially because the main opposition party, the United Democratic Party, boycotted the House of Representatives election.
On September 22, 2006, the presidential election was held. Yahya jammeh was re-elected president. 200 1, 1, in September 2006, 20 1 1, 1 was re-elected for three times.
20 13 10 2, issued a statement to withdraw from the Commonwealth.
201165438+1October 14 announced that it had broken diplomatic relations with Taiwan Province province, but not with People's Republic of China (PRC), so it became one of the few countries that had neither established diplomatic relations with Taiwan Province province nor with People's Republic of China (PRC).
20 15 12 12, Gambia changed its name to "Islamic Republic of Gambia".
16, 17 In March, People's Republic of China (PRC) announced the full restoration of diplomatic relations with Gambia at the ambassadorial level. Foreign Minister Wang Yi held bilateral talks with Gambian Foreign Minister Gay, and signed the Joint Communiqué on the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations between People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Islamic Republic of Gambia on behalf of their respective governments.