Kénédougou Kingdom
Kénédougou Kingdom Fǎngi Kenedugu | |||||||||
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| c. 1650–1898 | |||||||||
West Africa in 1875 | |||||||||
| Status | Kingdom | ||||||||
| Capital | Bougoula (?–1877) Sikasso (1877–1898) | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Faama | |||||||||
• (first) | Nanka Traoré | ||||||||
• (1876–1893) | Tieba Traoré | ||||||||
• (1893–1898) | Babemba Traoré | ||||||||
| Historical era | Early modern period | ||||||||
• Established | c. 1650 | ||||||||
• Established independence from Kong Empire | 1825 | ||||||||
• Fall of Sikasso | 1 May 1898 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Mali Côte d'Ivoire Burkina Faso | ||||||||
The Kénédougou Kingdom, (Cebaara Senufo: Fǎngi Kenedugu), (c. 1650–1898) was a pre-colonial West African state established in the southeastern portion of present-day Mali, as well as parts of northern Côte d'Ivoire and western Burkina Faso.