Wuli was a Mandinka kingdom located on the north bank of the Gambia River in what is now the eastern portion of The Gambia and the Tambacounda region of Senegal. Ruled as an independent polity by the Wali family from the early 16th century until European colonialism in the late 19th, it controlled an important crossroads for trading routes linking the upper Niger river valley with the coast.
Wuli was a Mandinka kingdom located on the north bank of the Gambia River in what is now the eastern portion of The Gambia and the Tambacounda region...
Wuli may refer to: Wuli District, a district in the Upper River Division of the Gambia The KingdomofWuli, a former kingdom in Senegambia, after which...
Wuli District was one of the four districts of the former Upper River Division of the Gambia. The Upper River Division is now the Basse Local Government...
time the area was a part of the KingdomofWuli, but some sources claim that the Kamara were given the land by the Buurba of the Jolof Empire. Two brothers...
Tatenga), (Builsa, Busuma) Edem Kingdom (12th century AD–?/present) (NSM in Nigeria) Akpakip Oro (1200–1909 AD) KingdomofWuli (1235–1889 AD) Mali Empire...
by the Mandinka KingdomofWuli.: 39, 56 In recent decades many of the remaining Koyaguis have emigrated from the Youkounkoun area of Guinea to Senegal...
is located in Wuli East District in the Upper River Division. As of 2008, it has an estimated population of 5,924. Located just south of the north bank...
post upriver at Pisania. Thence, via the town of Jonkakonda, he reached the frontier of the kingdomofWuli in early 1791. Although he was received cordially...
chief. Bantunding was the capital of the pre-colonial KingdomofWuli. "Gambia: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population". World Gazetteer...
1087. Rokhaya Fall argues that it was likely a part of the KingdomofWuli during a period when Wuli controlled the entire area between the Ferlo desert...
him.: 142 The town, a center of the peanut trade with the English, was attacked by Bundu in 1863.: 140 The KingdomofWuli became a French protectorate...
It is located in Wuli District in the Upper River Division, a few kilometers southwest of the much larger village of Baja Kunda. As of 2009, it has an...
(APRC), which won all fourteen seats. Regions of the Gambia KingdomofWuli McColl, R. W. (2014). Encyclopedia of World Geography, Volume 1. Infobase Publishing...
MacDonnell intent on reaching the interior. The village of Barrakunda, a part of the KingdomofWuli, occasionally hosted European trading posts from as early...
launching his next attack against the KingdomofWuli in July 1887. The capital was sacked and the king, another puppet of the French, was executed. Galliéni...
Kantora, Jimara, Kiang, Badibu, Fuladu, Tumana, and Wuli, all of which have lent their names to districts of The Gambia today. Major trading posts on or near...
the expense of the native Jallonke people. From his base in the mountains, Koli attacked the kingdomsofWuli and Niani on the north bank of the Gambia...
from the highland of Champa occurred in 1155, when Cham envoy reportedly shipped 55,020 catties (around 33 tons) of incense ofWuli to the Song court...
center of an extensive Soninke trading diaspora linking it with Diarra and Timbuktu to the east, southeast to Segou, and south to Tanda and Wuli on the...
part of the KingdomofWuli, the town was one of the most important religious centers in the region. It remains to the present day the seat of a prominent...
and hold were marched down the river from Wuli and other states to the east for trade at the Niumi ports of Jillifree or Albreda. They were placed on...
Sarahuleh village, the oldest in the area and the only one in the former KingdomofWuli that predates the 19th century invasion by Mamadu Lamine Drammeh. An...
vassal kingdom—Walo, Takrur, Kayor, Baol, Sine, Salum, Wuli, and Niani—recognized the hegemony of Jolof and paid tribute." The Serer Kingdomsof Sine and...
transliterated as Combo) was a kingdom and later a chieftaincy in Gambia during the colonial period. Kombo was part of the Mali Empire and gained independence...
subduing the Mandinka states on the northern bank of the Gambia, including Niumi, Badibu, Nyani, and Wuli, as the Mali Empire declined. Jolof would also...
reigning Buurba of the empire signaled the end of Jolof hegemony over Cayor, Baol, Saloum, Sine, Wuli, Niani, and Waalo. The Lamane of Cayor Dece Fu Njogu...
breakup of the Wolof Empire allowed Mali to reassert authority over some of its former subjects on the north bank of the Gambia, such as Wuli, by 1576...
current debates stem from the fact that the course and length of the Yangtze between Wuli and Wuhan has changed since the Sui and Tang dynasties. The modern...
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