Futa Tooro

The Fouta Toro ( different spelling Fouta Tooro and Futa Toro, formerly known as Mussukeba Sane ) is the country mainly on the left, the south side of the lower reaches of the river Senegal. The area extends approximately from Bakel until after Dagana shortly before Richard Toll.

History

In the 18th and 19th centuries the Fouta Toro was the heartland of the Tukulor, a population group that belongs to the Fulani peoples. The Kingdom of Fouta Toro was founded in 1776 when the Islamic Almaami Abd- el- Kadr Toorodi defeated the animistic realm Denanke, and bordered it to the realms Waalo in the west, the kingdom Jolof in the southwest and Bondu in the southeast. In the flat area at that time there were numerous forests and tamarinds of the population millet and peanuts were grown. The kingdom was divided into four districts: Dimar, Toro, the actual Futa and Damga.

Fouta Toro was subjected in 1860 of France. The real Futa, which had a republican form of government under a selectable religious leaders ( Almami derived from Imam ), was able to preserve its independence longer. France summed up these areas with Dagana, Podor, Salde and Matam together for the district of Saint- Louis.

With the independence of the states Senegal and Mauritania the Senegal River became the border between the two countries. The villages on the right bank of the Senegal are today in Mauritania, which on the left bank in Senegal.

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