The Balanta (Guinea-Bissau Creole and Portuguese: balanta; French: balante; lit. “those who resist” in Mandinka) are an ethnic group found in Guinea-Bissau...
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Balanta (or Balant) is a group of two closely related Bak languages of West Africa spoken by the Balanta people. Balanta is now generally divided into...
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footballer Kevin Balanta, Colombian footballer Leyvin Balanta, Colombian footballer Balanta people, West African ethnic group Balanta language, spoken...
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Éder Fabián Álvarez Balanta (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈeðeɾ ˈalβaɾes]; born 28 February 1993) is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a defensive...
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Andrés Felipe Balanta Cifuentes (18 January 2000 – 29 November 2022) was a Colombian professional footballer who played as defensive midfielder for Deportivo...
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Ángelo Jasiel Balanta (born 1 July 1990) is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or a striker for National League...
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2015 Kevin Balanta Archived 2016-08-16 at the Wayback Machine. rio2016.com Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kevin Balanta. Kevin Balanta at WorldFootball...
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Richard Dent (category Living people)
According to a DNA analysis, he descended mainly from Mende people of Sierra Leone and Balanta people of Guinea Bissau. He is the godfather of football player...
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Portuguese involvement, the people of Portuguese Guinea were subsistence farmers. By the 19th century, the coastal Balanta people, who lived outside Portuguese...
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Bissau-Guinean Americans (category American people of Bissau-Guinean descent)
amongst their diaspora. Balanta Americans are people in the United States that maintain an identity of a varying level within the Balanta ethnic group. In which...
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as well as the busunde of the Papel people and the kisinta of the Balanta people, both of Guinea-Bissau. Recent findings presented by researchers Daniel...
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the Casamance region of Senegal Balanta language a Bak language of west Africa spoken by the Balanta people and Balanta-Ganja dialect in Senegal Mandinka...
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Tom Joyner (category People appearing on C-SPAN)
performed by African Ancestry Inc., is also descended partially from the Balanta people of Guinea-Bissau. Joyner has been an advocate for voter registration...
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July 2022, Balanta signed with Liga Portugal 2 club Torreense. Juan Balanta at Soccerway Juan Balanta at WorldFootball.net "JUAN BALANTA É REFORÇO" [JUAN...
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named after the Balanta people (or Southern Balanta), the club location where the people inhabit. Mansoa is the main city of the Balantas in Guinea-Bissau...
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Demographics of Guinea-Bissau (redirect from Guinea-Bissauan people)
Most Guineans, 99%, are Black people — mostly Fula and Mandinka-speakers concentrated in the north and northeast, the Balanta and Papel, living in the southern...
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Francisco Balanta (born 16 March 1998) is a Colombian judoka. He won the silver medal in the –90 kg event at the 2019 Pan American Games held in Lima...
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stringed instrument the akonting, a precursor of the banjo while the Balanta people, the largest ethnic group of Guinea-Bissau, play a similar gourd lute...
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the Balanta people first migrated from Northeast Africa to present-day Guinea-Bissau, to escape drought and wars. During the 19th century, the Balanta resisted...
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other indigenous ethnic groups of the Senegambian region—the Baga, the Balanta, the Konyagi, etc.—the Jola ethnic group did not develop a political scale...
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the Senegalese languages have the status of "national languages": Wolof, Balanta-Ganja, Arabic, Jola-Fonyi, Mandinka, Mandjak, Mankanya, Noon (Serer-Noon)...
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Leyvin Jhojane Balanta Fory (born 3 September 1990) is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a left back for Categoría Primera A club Deportes...
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Maia Morgenstern (category Jewish film people)
Romania, she has been nationally known since her 1992 role as Nela in Balanța, a film known in the United States as The OakThe film is set during the...
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historians. The earliest inhabitants were the Jola, Papel, Manjak, Balanta, and Biafada peoples. Later the Mandinka and Fulani migrated into the region, in the...
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African Americans (redirect from Black people in the United States)
African ethnic groups: Akan (including the Ashanti and Fante subgroups), Balanta, Bamileke, Bamun, Bariba, Biafara, Bran, Chokwe, Dagomba, Edo, Ewe, Fon...
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Two soldiers drowned and the rest were captured by the Balanta.: 315 The bishop went to Balanta territory to ransom the soldiers, and on his return an...
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Gambia, but were progressively pushed westward by the Mandinka, Balanta and Jola peoples. The Bainuk states dominated the riverine and coastal trade in...
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Alexander Balanta Abonía (born 2 September 1993) is a Colombian footballer who plays as a central defender for Liga Nacional club Honduras Progreso. Balanta started...
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influence of the country's music. Guinea-Bissau's 1,596,677 people (July 2011 estimate) include Balanta (30%), Fula (20%), Manjack (14%), Mandinka (13%) and...
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