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Kaabu (1537–1867), also
written Gabu, Ngabou, and N'Gabu, was a
federation of
Mandinka kingdoms in the
Senegambia region centered within modern northeastern...
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Guinea to its southeast. Guinea-Bissau was once part of the
kingdom of
Kaabu, as well as part of the Mali Empire.
Parts of this
kingdom persisted until...
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province of the Mali
Empire which later became independent as the
empire of
Kaabu.
Portugal claimed the
region during the 1450s, but its
control was limited...
- Gabu Region.
Founded under the name Kansala, Gabu was the
capital of the
Kaabu Empire until its
destruction in 1867. The
Portuguese renamed the town Nova...
- The name
derived from farim, the
title of the
local Mandinka ruler of
Kaabu. For
their part, the
Mandinkas and
Soninke called the
settlement Tubabodaga...
- Toro, and the ****a Jallon. The Fula po****tion of
Mandinka states such as
Kaabu, Kombo, Niumi, Wuli and
others had also increased.
These states were ruled...
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siege of the
capital of the
Kaabu federation by the
Imamate of ****a Jallon,
allied with
rebellious Fula
people from
Kaabu itself. The battle,
which saw...
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military conquest with the
expansion of the
Ghana Empire, Mali Empire,
Kaabu and W****oulou states. The non-Mandé-speaking Fula, Songhai, Wolof, Hausa...
- the
Mandinka controlled the region. They had
established the
kingdom of
Kaabu as a v****al of the Mali
Empire in the
fifteenth century.
Nomadic pastoralists...
- Sundiata's
generals continued to
expand the empire's frontiers,
reaching from
Kaabu in the west, Takrur,
Oualata and
Audaghost in the north, and the Soninke...
