Wassoulou Empire

Overview

The Samorian state was a short-lived West African state that existed from roughly 1860 until 1898, although dates vary from source to source. It spanned from what is now southwestern Mali and upper Guinea, with its capital in Bissandugu; it expanded further south into Northern Sierra Leone and east into northern Ivory Coast before its downfall.

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Borders & accuracy

A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.

• SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
• DETAILhand-crafted-from-atlases
• SNAPSHOT1885
• POLITY TYPEtributary

Wars of this empire5

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

• Franco-Mandingo Wars1882–98
  World-changing
• Battle of Woyowayanko1883
  Significant
• Samori's Destruction of Kong1897–98
  Significant
• French Conquest of Sikasso (1898)1898
  Significant
• Babatu and Samory Wars in Northern Ghana1880–97
  Regional