Nioro du Sahel, Kayes Region, Mali
🇲🇱 Nioro du Sahel, often referred to as simply Nioro, is a town and urban commune in the Kayes Region of western Mali, 241 km from the city of Kayes. It is located 275 miles north-west of the Malian capital Bamako.
Founded in circa 1240 by a Diawando slave named Beydari Tamboura, Nioro attained its greatest height in the eighteenth century as the then-capital of the Bambara kingdom of Kaarta. The town became an important trading centre between Upper Senegal and the Sudan.
In the early 1850s, the Toucouleur conqueror El Hadj Umar Tall invaded Kaarta, forcing the kingdom's conversion to Islam; he built a great mosque in Nioro in 1854. Umar Tall's son Ahmadu Tall took refuge in Nioro after the fall of his capital Segou to the French in 1890. His army, led by the Wolof king-in-exile Alboury Ndiaye, failed to defend the city against the advancing colonial army in January 1891.
The town has an airstrip at Nioro Airport.
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Nioro du Sahel has a population of over 69,100 people. Nioro du Sahel also forms one of the centres of the wider Kayes Region which has a population of over 1,996,812 people. Nioro du Sahel is situated north-west of Bamako.
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🇲🇱 Fana -6.567,12.767 d: 419.3
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