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Guinea-Bissau: history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | This independence was soon threatened by the Portuguese, who had been settled on the coast from the end of the 15th century, and by the Fulah, coming from the interior in the 16th century. |
 | | Inland, the state of Gabu remained autonomous until the 19th century (see Senegal: The Fulah States) while the coastal population suffered the consequences of the slave trade and forced displacement to the Cape Verde Islands (see Cape Verde). |
 | | At that time, the country was inhabited by several different groups, immigrants from the state of Mali along with the Fulah and Mandingo groups, who lived in organized autocratic societies in the savannahs. |
| gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_history.cfm?Id=42 (1780 words) |