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Name: Kingdom of Gourma

Type: Polity

Start: 1701 AD

End: 1899 AD

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Was a polity of the Gurma people located in Burkina Faso.

Establishment


  • January 1701: The Kingdom of Gourma was founded by Diaba Lompo with the capital at Pama. Later, in the 18th century, Yendabri moved Gulmu's capital to Fada N'Gourma.
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    1. Events


  • January 1891: The central part of actual niger was conquered by the French in 1890.

  • March 1893: The French Ivory Coast is officially established as a French colony on 10 March 1893 and its borders are defined.

  • January 1897: German Togo expanded north to the region around Sansane-Mangu, where a station was built in 1896.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1900: By 1899 German Togoland covered modern-day Togo and the Volta Region of Ghana, with the exception of the Salaga region.
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