guinea
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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.
The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
Rivières du Sud (France)
French Guinea
Republic of Guinea
People's Revolutionary Republic of Guinea
Establishment
January 1861: The French colonial governor of Senegal Louis Faidherbe in the 1850s formalised the colonial structure which was christened Rivières du Sud.
Chronology
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Were a series of conflicts from 1883 to 1898 between France and the Wassoulou Empire.
1.1.First Mandingo War
Was a war between France and the Wassoulou Empire.
January 1887: In 1886 Samory was forced to accept the Niger as his frontier.
January 1866: In 1865 the French built a fort at Boké, in the Rio Nunez area, expanding from the main French-controlled town of Conakry.
January 1885: In 1883 and 1884, with the support of his brother Ludwig, a director of the Württembergische Vereinsbank in Stuttgart, Colin established trading posts of his own in the unclaimed areas of Baga und Sousou and along the Dubreka river, including one at Bramaia, and signed agreements with the local rulers.
December 1885: The German-French Protocol of 24 December 1885 marked the transfer of Dubrica, a territory in Germany, to Rivières du Sud in France. This agreement solidified France's sovereignty over the region, a significant moment in the history of European territorial disputes.
December 1891: A decree transformed the colony of "Rivières du Sud" into "French Guinea".
January 1892: In 1891, Guinea was proclaimed a French colony.
January 1893: At the Berlin Congress of 1885 it was decided that around 30 percent of the Liberian national territory was to be annexed by France in two stages. The second cession took place in 1892.
August 1896: The boundaries of Sierra Leone were demarcated with French Guinea and Liberia.
November 1896: The battle of Porédaka on November 13, 1896, is a minor engagement during which the French colonial troops in the company of Modi Oumarou Bademba and Alpha Ibrahima Fougouba decisively defeat the last forces of Almamy Bocar Biro Barry last almamy of Fouta Djallon, after which the Fouta Djallon is annexed to the Senegambian Confederation.
September 1898: The Wassoulou empire was a short-lived (1878-1898) empire, led by Samory Touré in the predominantly Malinké area of what is now upper Guinea and southwestern Mali (Wassoulou).
January 1899: French military expedition to Sikasso.
October 1958: French Guinea became independent from France in 1958 after its voters rejected Charles de Gaulle's Constitution of 1958. This led to the territory joining the Republic of Guinea.
January 1980: Guinea aligned itself with the Soviet Union and adopted socialist policies.
April 1984: On April 3, 1984, a military junta led by Lansana Conté and Diarra Traoré took power in Guinea without bloodshed. Conté was declared President and Traoré Prime Minister. Conté condemned his predecessor's human rights abuses, released 250 political prisoners and persuaded some 200,000 people to return to Guinea. He turned away from socialism, but without taking any steps towards democracy.
