Samorian State
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The Samorian State was a short-lived West African state that existed from roughly 1860 until 1898, although dates vary from source to source. It spanned from what is now southwestern Mali and upper Gu
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Ruins of Samori Ture's residence at Bondoukou
Bissandugu
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Bissandugu is a city in southwestern 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 Empire.
Samorian State
…roughly 1860 until 1898, although dates vary from source to source. It spanned from what is now southwestern Mali and upper Guinea, with its capital in Bissandugu; it expanded further south into northern Sierra Leone and east into northern Ivory Coast before its downfall. The state founded by Samory Toure did not…
The mass grave of the French soldiers killed during the Battle of Bissandou, commonly known as Tubabu Falan (the cave of the white)