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Baol -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The Kingdom of Baol in central (A republic in northwestern Africa on the coast of the Atlantic; formerly a French colony but achieved independence in 1960) Senegal was one of the kingdoms that arose from the split-up of the Empire of (Click link for more info and facts about Jolof) Jolof (Diolof) in about 1549. |
| | Cayor and Baol were conquered by the French in the 19th century along with the rest of Senegal, in the campaigns of Governor Louis Faidherbe. |
| | Cayor was ethnically a (The West AFrican language of the Wolof people in Senegal; related to Fula) Wolof kingdom, but it included communities of Serer-Safen and other (A West African language closely related to Fula; spoken primarily in Senegal and Gambia) Serer groups. |
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