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    Futa Tooro (redirect from Fouta-Toro)
    armies and migrants to the Fouta Djallon. The word Futa is a general name the Fulbe gave to any area they lived in, while Toro was the actual identity of...
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    The Imamate of Futa Toro (Arabic: إمامة فوتة تورو; Fula: Imaama Futa Toro; French: Imamat de Futa Toro) was a West African theocratic monarchy of the Fula-speaking...
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    confused with Pular, another variety of Fula spoken in Guinea (including the Fouta Djallon region). The Pulaar and Pular varieties of Fula are to some extent...
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    leurs correspondants en ouslof de Saint-Louis, en poular, Toucoulor, du Fouta, en Soninké, Sarakhollé, de Bakel. Saint-Louis, Senegal: Imprimerie du Gouvernement...
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  • a piece of thin patterned fabric used in many Mediterranean countries Fouta Toro, a region along the border of Senegal and Mauritania Futa (disambiguation)...
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    of Podor in an area known as Fouta Toro in Northern Senegal. His parents moved to Saint Louis from their native Fouta Toro, both from aristocratic lineage...
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    Soninke, and Arabic. Major concentrations of Fulani people exist in the Fouta Djallon highlands of central Guinea and south into the northernmost reaches...
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  • become Bakel was first settled by a marabout named Abdoulaye Wane from Fouta Toro, along with his students, known as talibes. At the beginning of the 17th...
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  • Koli Tenguella Ba, venu du Mali, crée le premier royaume Peul dans le Fouta Toro, Le Devoir, Coin d'histoire, June 11th 2023 Kane 2021, pp. 72. Kane 2021...
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    Islamization. The territory of Tekrur approximates that of the current Fouta Toro. Its existence in the 9th century is attested by Arabic manuscripts. The...
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    sister of Sunni Ali Ber, it is impossible that he himself came from Fouta Toro because the post of general was only given to a member of the royal family...
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  •  123. Mohamed Bachir Diop, Koli Tenguella Ba, venu du Mali, crée le premier royaume Peul dans le Fouta Toro, Le Devoir, Coin d'histoire, June 11th 2023...
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  • community in Ghana Fouta Djallon, Guinea Futa Tooro, a region along the Senegal River Imamate of Futa Jallon Imamate of Futa Toro Federal Unemployment...
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    them settled there following the Muslim revolutions in Bundu, Macina and Fouta-Toro, which allowed the formation of Muslim theocracies. However, under Alpha...
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    Forces Démocratiques de Casamance, and the Association des Toucouleurs du Fouta Toro. In the 1951 legislative elections BDS got 213 182 votes (67% of the votes...
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    the Emirate of Timbo,: 50  was a West African Islamic state based in the Fouta Djallon highlands of modern Guinea. The state was founded in 1725 by a Fulani...
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  • about 70 km north-west from Matam. It is in the historical region of Fouta-Toro in the department and region of Matam. The town is located on Highway...
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    the south. Professor Oumar Kane of the Cheikh Anta Diop University, a Fouta-Toro specialist, describes the importance of water in this region, which draws...
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  • Torodbe (section Futa Toro)
    Turudiyya, Banu Toro, Takrur, Toronkawa) were Muslim Toucouleur clerics and theocratic monarchs who preached and reigned in Futa Toro, a region located...
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    brotherhood of the Sudan. After a long stay in Sokoto, he moved to the Fouta Djallon region (in present-day Guinea) in the 1840s. Here, he completed...
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  • the maternal cousin of Karamokho Alfa, who launched a successful jihad in Fouta Djallon. Both men studied in Fugumba under the famous scholar Tierno Samba...
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    Records) Baayo (with Mansour Seck) (1991, Mango) Lam Toro (1992, Mango) Wango (1994, Syllart) Firin' in Fouta (1994, Mango) Gorel (1995, 4th & Broadway) Taara...
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  • from which descend all of its population." In Chronicles of Senegalese Foùta, Dyao gave account of six population migrations from Egypt to Senegambia:...
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    in large numbers in order to win the support of Fouta Djalon for the revolt, since the Almami of Fouta Djallon were opposed to traditional religion, whether...
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  • Fellani; Ful; Foulah; Fellata - Fuladu - Funana - Fouta Djallon; Djalonkes; Jalonke; Dialonke; Jaalo - Futa Toro - Gabú - Henriques Galvao - Rio de Geba; Geba...
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    in Fouta, but also in the former countries of the Ferlo, Jolof and Kajoor, which marked the migration of proto-Sereer, whose imprint on the Fouta was...
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    1521 and set up the Denanke dynasty. This would last until 1776 when the Fouta Revolution, led by Muslim clerics, took over the kingdom and the house of...
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  • the realm and part of the imperial nucleus. The lands of Bambougou, Jalo (Fouta Djallon), and Kaabu were added into Mali by Fakoli Koroma (known as Nkrumah...
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    ISBN 978-85-7652-127-3. Retrieved 2013-02-10. Rashedi, Khorram (January 2009). Histoire du Fouta-Djallon. Harmattan. p. 38. ISBN 978-2-296-21852-9. Retrieved 2013-02-11...
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    Saint-Louis belongs to the Governor, Cayor to the Damel, Djollof to the Bourba, Fouta to the Almamy and Walo to the Brak. Each of these chiefs governs his country...
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