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Name: Kantora

Type: Polity

Start: 1701 AD

End: 1900 AD

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Was a precolonial kingdom in Gambia created by the Mandinka people.

Establishment


  • January 1701: The kingdom was one of the nine kingdoms of the Mandinka on the southern bank of the Gambia River from the early 18th century to the mid-19th century. It extended in the north-west to the kingdom of Tomani.
  • Chronology


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    1. Events


  • January 1842: The beginning of the invasion of Guinea by the Portuguese can be estimated around 1841, when the first Portuguese books relating to Guinea were published.

  • January 1851: Fouladou was a kingdom created in Senegal, between the middle and the end of the 19th century.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1901: Kantora integrated into British Gambia Colony.
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