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Dakar (/ d ɑː ˈ k ɑːr, d æ-/ UK also: / ˈ d æ k ɑːr /; [4] French:; Wolof: Ndakaaru) [5] is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The department of Dakar has a population of 1,278,469, and the population of the Dakar metropolitan area was at 4.0 million in 2023. Dakar is situated on the Cap-Vert peninsula, the westernmost point of ...
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dakar, Senegal This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Îles de la Madeleine off the shore of Dakar. The Îles de la Madeleine (French pronunciation: [il də la madlɛn]) lie west of Dakar in Senegal. The islands are uninhabited. The main island is Sarpan, known for its Stone Age tool finds. The islands are also known for their birds, fish and plant life.
Gorée Island was the Pit Stop for Leg 4 of The Amazing Race 6, and the Slave House itself was visited during Leg 5. [44] [45] Gorée Island has been featured in many songs, due to its history related to the slave trade. The following songs have significant references to Gorée Island: Steel Pulse– "Door Of No Return" on African Holocaust (2004)
Charles Uyisenga, La participation de la colonie du Sénégal à l'effort de guerre 1914–1918, Dakar: Université de Dakar, 1978, 216 pages (Mémoire de Maîtrise) Nicole Vaget Grangeat, Le Chevalier de Boufflers et son temps, étude d'un échec, Paris, Nizet, 1976
Gorée : The Slave Island. BBC News. 8 July 2003. la Maison des Esclaves. Visite Virtuel d'Ile de Goree: UNESCO World Heritage Africa. Report on the Slave Trade Archives project, under the Memory of the World Programme, in Dakar, Senegal, 7-11 January 2002 Ahmed A. Bachr, UNESCO. UNESCO World Heritage site 26 (1978) listing: Goree Island.
"Senegal profile: Timeline". BBC News. Lydia Samarbakhsh-Liberge (ed.). "Chronologie: Sénégal". Histoire-afrique.org (in French). Archived from the original on 8 May 2008.. Initiated by Agence universitaire de la Francophonie
List of islands of Senegal. 4 languages. Boarisch; Deutsch; ... Île de la Goélette: ... The island of slaves opposite the port of Dakar: Guior Island