Minignan
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Minignan (also spelled Maninian) is a town in north-western Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of and the seat of Minignan Department. It is also a commune and the seat of the Folon Region in Denguélé District.
History
The French explorer René Caillié stopped at Minignan in 1827 on his journey from Boké, in present-day Guinea, to Timbuktu in Mali. He was travelling in a caravan transporting kola nuts to Djenné. He described the village in his book Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo.
We halted towards two o'clock at Manegnan [Minignan], a village inhabited by Bambaras; it contains about eight or nine hundred inhabitants; the natives call this part of the country Foulou, and like the Wassoulos they speak the Mandingo language; I did not perceive that they had any particular dialect. They are idolaters, or rather, they are without any religion; their food and clothes are like those of the inhabitants of Wassoulo; and they are equally dirty.{{cite book | last=Caillié | first=René | title=Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and across the Great Desert, to Morocco, performed in the years 1824-1828 (Volume 1) | publisher=Colburn & Bentley |location=London | year=1830 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/travelsthroughc00cailgoog/page/n349 307]–308 | url= https://archive.org/details/travelsthroughc00cailgoog }}{{cite book | last=Quella-Villéger | first=Alain | year=2012 | title=René Caillié, l'Africain : une vie d'explorateur, 1799-1838 | publisher=Aubéron | place=Anglet, France | isbn=978-2-84498-137-0 | language=French | page=76}}
In 2014, the population of the sub-prefecture of Minignan was 14,521.{{cite web|title=RGPH 2014, Répertoire des localités, Région Folon|url=http://www.ins.ci/n/documents/rgph/FOLON.pdf|website=ins.ci|accessdate=5 August 2019}}
Villages
The 13 villages of the sub-prefecture of Minignan and their population in 2014 are:
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- Diandéguéla (1 007)
- Minignan (6 831)
- Bougoussa (678)
- Djérila (778)
- Djonrozo Somotou (498)
- Fanhanla (563)
- Gouenzou (901)
- Koriani (431)
- Linguékoro (209)
- Niamina (658)
- Sambadougou (397)
- Sokouraba (867)
- Tienny (703)
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References
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{{Folon Region subdivisions}}
Category:Sub-prefectures of Folon Region
Category:Communes of Folon Region
Category:Regional capitals of Ivory Coast
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