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ID: 8698191
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/8698191
Record Type:
administrative
Kaabu (former nation/state/empire)
Coordinates:
Lat: 13 15 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 13.2500
decimal degrees
Long: 016 06 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -16.1000
decimal degrees
Note:
Federation of about 30 provinces covering parts of the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau. Emerged from the sidelines of the Malian empire to become one of the most powerful forces in the region. Its capital was Kansala.
Names:
Kaabu
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Kaabu Empire
(
C
,
V
)
Gabu Empire
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Kaabu
(former nation/state/empire) (
P
)
Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (
preferred
,
C
)
............
15th-18th centuries
kingdom (
H
)
Related geographic places:
historical connection ....
Guinea-Bissau
.......... (nation)
........................................
(World, Africa) [1000183]
Sources and Contributors:
Gabu Empire..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopedia of African History (2005)
1039
Kaabu..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Encyclopedia of Empire, Wiley Online (2016-)
accessed 21 October 2016
Kaabu Empire..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Green, Kaabu Empire, Mande Studies (2009)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Barry, Senegambia (1998)
21-23
..................
Green, Kaabu Empire, Mande Studies (2009)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Barry, Senegambia (1998)
..........
Green, Kaabu Empire, Mande Studies (2009)
..........
Mané, Contribution à l'histoire du Kaabu (1978)
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