Yang-Yang
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yang-yang-187-3054060
title:
Yang-Yang
text:
Yang-Yang is a village in northern Senegal, the seat of the eponymous Yang-Yang Arrondissement since 1976. It was made the capital of the Kingdom of Jolof in 1865 under Bakane Tam Khary Dialor. Buurba Alboury Ndiaye built a tata in the town to defend it, using a labor force of 3000 men. The defenses successfully repelled an attach by Bara Ba, cousin of Shaikh Amadou Ba, in 1875. Yang-Yang was captured and burned by a French column led by Alfred Dodds in May 1890, bringing Jolof into the French c
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Town in Louga Region, Senegal
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang-Yang
date created:
2015-02-06T04:56:38Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T11:04:08Z
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13
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