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It became the major tool of French colonialism in Senegal, but saddled with debt, it was dissolved 1681 and replaced by another that lasted until 1694, the date of creation of the Royal Company of Senegal, whose director, Andre Brue, would be captured by Lat Sukaabe Fall the Damel of Cayor and released against ransom in 1701. A third Company of ...
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Historic sites in Senegal (2 C, 3 P) Pages in category "History of Senegal" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Millennia in Senegal (4 C) Y. Years in Senegal (8 C, 4 P) This page was last edited on 8 September 2018, at 07:58 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Senegal's economic and political capital is Dakar. Senegal is the westernmost country in the mainland of the Old World, or Afro-Eurasia. [14] It owes its name to the Senegal River, which borders it to the east and north. [15] The climate is typically Sahelian, though there is a rainy season. Senegal covers a land area of almost 197,000 square ...
There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".
West Africans (e.g., Mende of Sierra Leone), bearing the Senegal sickle cell haplotype, [217] [195] may have migrated into Mauritania (77% modern rate of occurrence) and Senegal (100%); they may also have migrated across the Sahara, into North Africa, and from North Africa, into Southern Europe, Turkey, and a region near northern Iraq and ...
Silla or Silli was an ancient town in the Senegal River Valley.Its exact location is debated. Possible identifications include the site of Sinthiou Bara in the Matam Region of Senegal, [1] the village of Silla near Kaedi in Mauritania, [2] or a site closer to the juncture of the Senegal and Faleme rivers.