Bainuk people information

The Bainuk people (also called Banyuk, Banun, Banyun, Bainouk, Bainunk, Banyum, Bagnoun, Banhum, Banyung, Ñuñ, Elomay, or Elunay) are an ethnic group...

Lower Casamance region in the 14th century, assimilating the previous Bainuk people and their rice tradition. In colonial times, the Jola began to cultivate...

traditional African religions. According to local legends, the Jola and Bainuk people are said to have inhabited Casamance for over a thousand years. Jola...

of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. Spellings are Bagnoun, Banhum, Banyung and Bainuk, Banyuk; other names are Elomay ~ Elunay; for the Gunyaamolo variety Ñuñ...

capital was at Brikama, on the south bank of the Casamance River. The Bainuk people were likely formed by a combination of the first inhabitants of the...

from Kambutchi, meaning 'the circumcised people' in the Bainuk language, the name of the pre-existing Bainuk kingdom. The region that would become Kaabu...

(called Casangas by later Portuguese, a now near-extinct people, related to the Bainuk people). They sent a couple of launches to land to open contact...

Banyun may refer to: Bainuk people, of Senegal Banyun, Iran (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Banyun...

but fertile lands ruled by the Bainuk people, so Sundiata sent him to avenge this insult. He led a group of 75,000 people, including 40,000 free men and...

Trawally, Tiramakhan Traore, etc.) had conquered the Bainuk people and killed the last great Bainuk king, King Kikikor, then renamed the country Kaabu before...

The traditions of the local peoples are unanimous in affirming that the oldest inhabitants of Casamance are the Bainuk people and that the left bank of...

Sereer (or Serer), Soninke, Susu (or Sousou), Joola, Nalu, Baga, Beafada, Bainuk, and Bassari. Senegal portal Gambia portal Mali portal Guinea portal Africa...

harbors Mandinka, Mankanya, Pulaar (a Fula group), Manjak, Balanta, Papel, Bainuk, and a small minority of Wolof. By contrast, the Wolof are the overall largest...

different languages and are much less populous. This is the case of the Bainuk, the Balanta, the Manjack, the Mankanya, the Karoninka, and the Bandial...

2008[update]. The town of Cacheu is situated in territory of the Papel people. The name is of Bainuk origin: Caticheu, meaning 'the place where we rest'. Cacheu...

Fuladu included the Mande Mandinka, Yalunka and Jakhanke people groups, as well as Wolofs, Jola, Bainuk, Balanta, and Manjacks. Alpha and Musa Molo both promoted...

Bainuk in origin, not Mandinka. It is from this heritage that the Guelowars of Kaabu came from. Thus, the previously held view that a group of people...

Empire to establish the Kingdom of Kombo, he married the daughter of the Bainuk Queen Wullending Jasseh of Sanyang who sits at Gunjur and took her to Busumbala...

Portuguese arrival, as the earliest sources mention the Bainuk of Ezigichor. The term may come from the Bainuk language words "asi nin core," meaning "places to...

In Kaabu (part of present-day Guinea Bissau), he defeated the last great Bainuk king (King Kikikor) and annexed his state. The great Kikikor was killed...

arrived, the area that became Wuli was inhabited by the Konyagui people, the Bainuks and a few Wolofs. The earliest Mandinka immigrants, presumably jula...

patriclans of "Sanneh" and "Manneh" (variations : "Sané" and "Mané" – both Bainuk and Jola surnames in origin, not Mandinka or Malinke), with the noble maternal...