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Ziguinchor (also called Zinguinchor) is the capital of the Ziguinchor Region, and the chief town of the Casamance area of Senegal, lying at the mouth of the Casamance River. [1]

83 relations: Abdoulaye Baldé (politician), Abdoulaye Wade, African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, Agency for French Education Abroad, Aline Sitoe Diatta, Armed Forces of Senegal, Atlantic slave trade, Balanta people, Basile de Carvalho, Berlin Conference, Bignona, Bordeaux Montaigne University, Cap Skirring, Cargo, Casamance, Casamance conflict, Casamance River, Cashew, Cathedral, Catholic Church, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Christian, Christianity, Club Med, Creole peoples, Dakar, Departments of Senegal, Factory, Ferry, François Rabelais, France, French Indochina, Fula people, Greenwich Mean Time, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Bissau Creole, Guinea-Bissau War of Independence, Islam, Jola people, Jules Bocandé, Lansana Coly, List of cities in Senegal, List of sovereign states, Mali Empire, Mandinka people, Mango, Manjak people, Marketplace, Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance, ..., Muslim, MV Le Joola, National Assembly (Senegal), Ousmane Sembène, Paris, Paris Descartes University, Peanut, Portugal, Portuguese language, Prince George's County, Maryland, Regions of Senegal, Robert Sagna, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Senegal, Serer people, Sister Cities International, Sister city, Soninke people, Syncretism, The Gambia, Tite (Guinea-Bissau), Toucouleur people, Touré Kunda, Tourism in Senegal, Tropical savanna climate, United States, Vegetable oil, Wolof people, Ziguinchor Airport, Ziguinchor Department, Ziguinchor Region, Ziguinchor University, 1992 African Cup of Nations. Expand index (33 more) »

Abdoulaye Baldé (politician)

Abdoulaye Baldé (born 16 January 1964).

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Abdoulaye Wade

Abdoulaye Wade (born 29 May 1926), Encyclopedia of the Nations.

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African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde

The African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde, PAIGC) is a political party in Guinea-Bissau.

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Agency for French Education Abroad

The Agency for French Education Abroad, or Agency for French Teaching Abroad, (Agence pour l'enseignement français à l'étranger AEFE), is a national public agency under the administration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France that assures the quality of schools teaching the French national curriculum outside France.

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Aline Sitoe Diatta

Aline Sitoe Diatta (also Aline Sitow Diatta and Alyn Sytoe Jata; 1920 – 1944) was a Senegalese heroine of the opposition to the French colonial empire a strong young female symbol of resistance and liberty.

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Armed Forces of Senegal

The Armed Forces of Senegal (Forces armées du Sénégal) consists of about 17,000 personnel in the army, air force, navy, and gendarmerie.

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Atlantic slave trade

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas.

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Balanta people

The Balanta (Guinea-Bissau Creole and Portuguese: balanta;; lit. “those who resist” in Balanta) are an ethnic group found in Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and The Gambia.

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Basile de Carvalho

Basile Salomon Pereira de Carvalho (born 31 October 1981 in Ziguinchor) is a Senegalese-born Bissau-Guinean international footballer.

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Berlin Conference

The Berlin Conference of 1884–85, also known as the Congo Conference (Kongokonferenz) or West Africa Conference (Westafrika-Konferenz), regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power.

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Bignona

Bignona is a town with commune status located in the Ziguinchor Region of Senegal (Casamance).

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Bordeaux Montaigne University

Bordeaux Montaigne University (Université Bordeaux Montaigne) is a French university, based in Bordeaux (Gironde).

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Cap Skirring

Cap Skirring, also spelled Cap Skiring, is a town on the Atlantic Ocean coast of the Basse Casamance (Ziguinchor) region of Senegal.

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Cargo

In economics, cargo or freight are goods or produce being conveyed – generally for commercial gain – by water, air or land.

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Casamance

Casamance (Wolof and Kasamansa; Casamance; Casamansa) is the area of Senegal south of the Gambia including the Casamance River.

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Casamance conflict

The Casamance conflict is an ongoing low-level conflict that has been waged between the Government of Senegal and the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) since 1982.

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Casamance River

The Casamance River flows westward for the most part into the Atlantic Ocean along a path about 200 miles (320 km) in length.

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Cashew

The cashew tree (Anacardium occidentale) is a tropical evergreen tree that produces the cashew seed and the cashew apple.

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Cathedral

A cathedral is a Christian church which contains the seat of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Centre national de la recherche scientifique

The French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the largest governmental research organisation in France and the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.

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Cheikh Anta Diop University

Cheikh Anta Diop University (Université Cheikh Anta Diop or UCAD), also known as the University of Dakar, is a university in Dakar, Senegal.

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Christian

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Club Med

Club Med SAS, commonly known as Club Med and previously known as Club Méditerranée SA, is a private French company specializing in premium all-inclusive holidays.

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Creole peoples

Creole peoples (and its cognates in other languages such as crioulo, criollo, creolo, créole, kriolu, criol, kreyol, kreol, kriol, krio, kriyoyo, etc.) are ethnic groups which originated from creolisation, linguistic, cultural and racial mixing between colonial-era emigrants from Europe with non-European peoples, climates and cuisines.

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Dakar

Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal.

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Departments of Senegal

The 14 Regions of Senegal are subdivided into 45 departments and 103 arrondissements (neither of which have administrative function) and by collectivités locales (the 14 régions, 110 communes, and 320 communautés rurales) which elect administrative officers.

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Factory

A factory or manufacturing plant is an industrial site, usually consisting of buildings and machinery, or more commonly a complex having several buildings, where workers manufacture goods or operate machines processing one product into another.

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Ferry

A ferry is a merchant vessel used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water.

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François Rabelais

François Rabelais (between 1483 and 1494 – 9 April 1553) was a French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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French Indochina

French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China) (French: Indochine française; Lao: ສະຫະພັນອິນດູຈີນ; Khmer: សហភាពឥណ្ឌូចិន; Vietnamese: Đông Dương thuộc Pháp/東洋屬法,, frequently abbreviated to Đông Pháp; Chinese: 法属印度支那), officially known as the Indochinese Union (French: Union indochinoise) after 1887 and the Indochinese Federation (French: Fédération indochinoise) after 1947, was a grouping of French colonial territories in Southeast Asia.

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Fula people

The Fula people or Fulani or Fulany or Fulɓe (Fulɓe; Peul; Fulani or Hilani; Fula; Pël; Fulaw), numbering between 40 and 50 million people in total, are one of the largest ethnic groups in the Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region.

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Greenwich Mean Time

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London.

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Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (República da Guiné-Bissau), is a sovereign state in West Africa.

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Guinea-Bissau Creole

Guinea-Bissau Creole (native name kriol, kiriol, kriolu and Portuguis varying with dialects; crioulo da Guiné in Portuguese) is the lingua franca of Guinea Bissau.

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Guinea-Bissau War of Independence

The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence was an armed independence conflict that took place in Portuguese Guinea between 1963 and 1974.

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Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

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Jola people

The Jola (Diola, in French transliteration) are an ethnic group found in Senegal (where they predominate in the region of Casamance), the Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau.

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Jules Bocandé

Jules François Bocandé, (25 November 1958 – 7 May 2012), was a Senegalese football striker.

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Lansana Coly

Lansana Coly (born 15 February 1958) is a Senegalese judoka.

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List of cities in Senegal

This is a list of cities in Senegal organised by population.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Mali Empire

The Mali Empire (Manding: Nyeni or Niani; also historically referred to as the Manden Kurufaba, sometimes shortened to Manden) was an empire in West Africa from 1230 to 1670.

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Mandinka people

The Mandinka (also known as Mandenka, Mandinko, Mandingo, Manding or Malinke) are an African ethnic group with an estimated global population of 11 million (the other three largest ethnic groups in Africa being the unrelated Fula, Hausa and Songhai peoples).

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Mango

Mangoes are juicy stone fruit (drupe) from numerous species of tropical trees belonging to the flowering plant genus Mangifera, cultivated mostly for their edible fruit.

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Manjak people

The Manjaks or Manjacks (Manjak: Manjaku; Mandjak; Manjaco; Wolof: Njaago) are an ethnic group in Guinea-Bissau.

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Marketplace

A market, or marketplace, is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods.

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Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance

The Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (Mouvement des forces démocratiques de Casamance, MFDC) is the main separatist movement in the Casamance region of Senegal, founded in 1982.

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Muslim

A Muslim (مُسلِم) is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.

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MV Le Joola

MV Le Joola was a Senegalese government-owned roll-on/roll-off ferry that capsized off the coast of the Gambia on 26 September 2002, with 1,863 deaths and 64 survivors.

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National Assembly (Senegal)

The National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) is the unicameral legislature of Senegal.

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Ousmane Sembène

Ousmane Sembène (1 January 1923 – 9 June 2007), often credited in the French style as Sembène Ousmane in articles and reference works, was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Paris Descartes University

Paris Descartes University (Université Paris 5 René Descartes), also known as Paris V, is a French public research university located in Paris.

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Peanut

The peanut, also known as the groundnut or the goober and taxonomically classified as Arachis hypogaea, is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa),In recognized minority languages of Portugal: Portugal is the oldest state in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.

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Prince George's County, Maryland

Prince George’s County (often shortened to "PG County") is a county in the U.S. state of Maryland, bordering the eastern portion of Washington, D.C. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the population was 863,420, making it the second-most populous county in Maryland, behind only Montgomery County.

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Regions of Senegal

Senegal is subdivided into 14 regions (French: régions, singularrégion), each of which is administered by a Conseil Régional (pl.: Conseils Régionaux) elected by population weight at the arrondissement level.

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Robert Sagna

Robert Sagna (born April 17, 1939, January 26, 2007..) is a Senegalese politician who served in the government of Senegal from 1978 to 2000 and was Mayor of Ziguinchor from 1984 to 2009.

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Saint-Maur-des-Fossés

Saint-Maur-des-Fossés is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France.

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Senegal

Senegal (Sénégal), officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country in West Africa.

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Serer people

The Serer people are a West African ethnoreligious group.

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Sister Cities International

Sister Cities International (SCI) is a nonprofit citizen diplomacy network that creates and strengthens partnerships between communities in the United States and those in other countries, particularly through the establishment of "sister cities".

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Soninke people

The Soninke, also called Sarakole, Seraculeh, or Serahuli, are a West African ethnic group found in eastern Senegal and its capital Dakar, northwestern Mali and Foute Djalon in Guinea, and southern Mauritania.

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Syncretism

Syncretism is the combining of different beliefs, while blending practices of various schools of thought.

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The Gambia

No description.

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Tite (Guinea-Bissau)

Tite is one of four Sectors of Quinara Region of Guinea-Bissau.

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Toucouleur people

The Toucouleur people, also called Tukulor or Haalpulaar are a West African ethnic group native to Futa Tooro region of Senegal.

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Touré Kunda

Touré Kunda is a Senegalese band noted for their musical versatility and political activism.

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Tourism in Senegal

Tourism in Senegal is a vital part of the West African nation's economy.

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Tropical savanna climate

Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories "Aw" and "As".

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vegetable oil

Vegetable oils, or vegetable fats, are fats extracted from seeds, or less often, from other parts of fruits.

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Wolof people

The Wolof people are a West African ethnic group found in northwestern Senegal, The Gambia and southwestern coastal Mauritania.

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Ziguinchor Airport

Ziguinchor Airport (Aéroport de Ziguinchor) is an airport serving Ziguinchor, the capital of the Ziguinchor Region (also known as Basse Casamance) in Senegal.

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Ziguinchor Department

Ziguinchor Department is one of the 45 departments of Senegal, one of three located in the Ziguinchor Region in the south-west of the country.

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Ziguinchor Region

Ziguinchor is a region of Senegal (regional capitals have the same name as their respective regions).

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Ziguinchor University

Ziguinchor University or (Université de Ziguinchor or UDZ) is located in Ziguinchor, Casamance, Senegal.

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1992 African Cup of Nations

The 1992 African Cup of Nations was the 18th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa (CAF).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziguinchor

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