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    Samory Toure (c. 1828 – June 2, 1900), also known as Samori Toure, Samory Touré, or Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure, was a Mandinka Muslim cleric, military...
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  • Empire Samori Ture (c. 1830–1900), founder of the Wassoulou Empire Seku Ture (1922–1984), president of Guinea Ture Sventon, a fictional detective Ture River...
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  • survived until the late 19th century when it was conquered first by Samori Ture and then incorporated into French Guinea. Batè (meaning 'by the river')...
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    Touré was the great-grandson of the powerful Mandinka Muslim cleric Samori Ture who established an independent Islamic polity in part of West Africa...
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    Ashanti court in the 1820s.: 88  By 1895 the Wassoulou Empire under Samori Ture had pushed east and conquered Kong, and was eyeing Bouna as a link to...
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  • Samori Toure may refer to: Samori Ture (1828–1900), Muslim cleric, military strategist, and founder and leader of the Wassoulou Empire Samori Toure (American...
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    emissaries to join the theocratic alliance led by Samori Ture and signed the peace treaty with him. While Samori was trying to conquering the Cissé kingdom,...
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  • campaigns throughout her career, notably working with Samori Ture, a king from Guinea. She prevented Ture from destroying her people by plying him with gifts...
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    1800s as a key commercial center and center of Islamic studies. In 1898, Samori Ture attacked the city and burnt it down. Although the city was rebuilt, the...
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  • 1870s to the 1890s under the rule of prominent Mandinka Muslim cleric Samori Ture. Also later a significantly large population of Mandinka from Guinea...
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    force to establish a fort there on February 1, 1883.: 76  Kebe Brema, Samori's brother, led a force to Bamako to lure the French out of their defenses...
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    earth" policy to prevail. Internal conquests of Samori. The armies and operations of African leader Samori Ture offer another illustration of the diversity...
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  • between France and the Wassoulou Empire of the Mandingo people led by Samori Ture. Comparatively, the French faced serious resistance by the Mandinka,...
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    Guinea on National Road 1. In the 19th century, it was the base for Samori Ture, a Dyula warlord who named the city in 1878 as the capital of his Wassoulou...
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    Ghana Camayanne Mausoleum, monumental grave of Guinea's national heroes Samori Ture, Sekou Toure, and Alfa Yaya in the Grand Mosque of Conakry Amilcar Cabral's...
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    the 15th century onwards. In the 1850s, Samori Ture founded the Wassoulou empire, including Forested Guinea. Ture was a military leader who seized control...
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    contain the Camayanne Mausoleum, including the tombs of the national hero Samori Ture, Sékou Touré and Alfa Yaya. The mosque suffers from a lack of maintenance...
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    weakened the kingdom. In 1895 the city of Kong was sacked and conquered by Samori Ture of the Wassoulou Empire. The Abron kingdom of Gyaaman was established...
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    centered the society around slavery. The dynasty in an alliance with Samori Ture fought French colonization until 1898. The kingdom was founded by Vakaba...
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  • assumed the throne, Babemba faced both an expanding Wassoulou Empire under Samori Ture and an aggressive French colonial army that was in the process of conquering...
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    (1878–1898), a short-lived empire built from the conquests of Dyula ruler Samori Ture and destroyed by the French colonial army. Akwa Akpa (18th century),...
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  • Ahmadou of Timbo Almany Niamody of the Toucouleur vassal state of Kaarta. Samori Ture of the Wassoulou Empire. Maba Diakhou Bâ, almamy of Rip in the Saloum...
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    military governor in 1892. Archinard led military campaigns against Samori Ture, Ahmadu Tall, and other resistant leaders in the region, with varying...
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    basin. In 1879, the Almamy Ibrahima Sory Dara secured an alliance with Samori Ture, whose Wassoulou Empire was rising to the east and needed secure access...
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  • Wassulu Empire of Samori Ture in West Africa. The first hostilities between France and Samori Ture began in early 1882, after Samori's forces laid siege...
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    Algiers in Algeria, where she died in 1917. From 1882 until his capture, Samori Ture, ruler of the Wassoulou Empire, fought the French colonial army, defeating...
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    wife, Kenyatta Matthews, and son, Samori Maceo-Paul Coates. His son's name is a reference to three people: Samori Ture, a Mandé chief who fought French...
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  • broad plateau at the edge of the kola zone, and was the birthplace of Samori Ture. Peter J. M. McEwan, Africa from Early Times to 1800 (Oxford U.P., 1968)...
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    the Wassoulou Empire (1870–1898), ruled by Samori Ture and centered on his capital, Bissandugu. In 1870, Samori overthrew an older Wassoulou state whose...
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    Sikasso. Kenedougou's conflict with the expanding Wassoulou Empire of Samori Ture began in 1884 when Tieba sent his brother Siaka to reinforce the frontier...
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