| Variable | Definition |
|---|---|
| Polity | The Seshat Polity ID |
| Year(s) | The years for which we have the data. [negative = BCE] |
| Tag | [Evidenced, Disputed, Suspected, Inferred, Unknown] |
| Verified | A Seshat Expert has approved this piece of data. |
| Variable | Definition |
|---|---|
| written_record | The absence or presence of written record for a polity. |
| # | Polity | Year(s) | Written Record | Description | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 241 |
(Pre-Maravi) |
Full Year Range of Pre-Maravi is assumed. [1151, 1399] |
absent |
The following suggests that writing did not develop indigenously in the region. "The earliest of the written documents on Malawi go back to the sixteenth century. Some adventurous Portuguese explorers and traders who periodically passed through central and southern Malawi as they sought minerals and other resources in the interior of the region wrote these documents." [Juwayeyi 2020] | |
| 242 |
(Kingdom of Nyinginya) |
Full Year Range of Kingdom of Nyinginya is assumed. [1650, 1897] |
absent |
None | |
| 244 |
(Chaulukya Dynasty) |
Full Year Range of Chaulukya Dynasty is assumed. [941, 1245] |
present |
EMPTY_COMMENT | |
| 246 |
(Gauda Kingdom) |
Full Year Range of Gauda Kingdom is assumed. [600, 625] |
present |
Many epigraphic materials including copper plates, short records, fragments of inscriptions and landgrants have been found in sites across the Vanga-Samatata region ranging in date from the 7th to the 13th centuries. [Harunur_Rashid_Haque 2001, pp. 93-224], [Majumdar 2015, pp. 1-27] In a record dated 619 CE, Sasanka is named as the suzerain of Gauda. [Majumdar 1943] | |
| 247 |
(Italian Kingdom Late Antiquity) |
Full Year Range of Italian Kingdom Late Antiquity is assumed. [476, 489] |
present |
None | |
| 248 |
(Early Maravi) |
Full Year Range of Early Maravi is assumed. [1400, 1499] |
absent |
The following suggests that writing did not develop indigenously in the region. "The earliest of the written documents on Malawi go back to the sixteenth century. Some adventurous Portuguese explorers and traders who periodically passed through central and southern Malawi as they sought minerals and other resources in the interior of the region wrote these documents." [Juwayeyi 2020] | |
| 249 |
(Gurjar-Pratihara Dynasty) |
Full Year Range of Gurjar-Pratihara Dynasty is assumed. [730, 1030] |
present |
None | |
| 250 |
(Northern Maravi Kingdom) |
Full Year Range of Northern Maravi Kingdom is assumed. [1500, 1621] |
absent |
EMPTY_COMMENT |