Koundian, Mali
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|title=Resultats Provisoires RGPH 2009 (Région de Kayes)
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Koundian is a small town and commune in the Cercle of Bafoulabé in the Kayes Region of south-western Mali. In the 2009 census the commune had a population of 14,075.
The Toucouleur leader El Hadj Umar Tall built a tata near the village in 1857.{{sfn|Delafosse|1912|p=[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1035644/f328.image 313]}}{{sfn|Meillassoux|1966|p=42}} The fort was captured by French troops led by Louis Archinard in 1889.{{sfn|Delafosse|1912|p=[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1035644/f428.image 411]}}{{sfn|Gatelet|1901|pp=[https://archive.org/stream/histoiredelaconq00gate#page/142/mode/2up 142-143]}}
References
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Sources
- {{citation | last=Delafosse | year=1912 | first=Maurice |title=Haut-Sénégal-Niger: Le Pays, les Peuples, les Langues; l'Histoire; les Civilizations. Volume 2: L'Histoire |publisher=Émile Larose |location=Paris | language=French | url= http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1035644 }}.
- {{citation | last= Gatelet | first= Auguste Louis Charles | year=1901 | title= Histoire de la conquête du Soudan français (1878-1899) | publisher= Berger-Levrault | place=Paris |url= https://archive.org/stream/histoiredelaconq00gate#page/n7/mode/2up | language=French }}.
- {{citation | last=Meillassoux | first=C. | year=1966 | title= Plans d'anciennes fortifications (Tata) en pays Malinké | journal= Journal de la Société des Africanistes | volume=36 | issue=1 | pages=29–44 | url= http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/jafr_0037-9166_1966_num_36_1_1403 | language=French | doi=10.3406/jafr.1966.1403}}. Page 42 contains a plan of the village showing the fort.
External links
- {{citation | title=Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune rurale de Koundian 2007-2009 | publisher=Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali | year=2006 | url=http://www.csa-mali.org/plans/Kayes/plansa_bafoulabe/P_S_A_Koundian.pdf | language=French | ref=none | access-date=2012-03-17 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120611005602/http://www.csa-mali.org/plans/Kayes/plansa_bafoulabe/P_S_A_Koundian.pdf | archive-date=2012-06-11 | url-status=dead }}.
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Category:Communes of Kayes Region
Category:1889 establishments in the French colonial empire
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