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  1. 119 relations: Abdoulaye Seye, Acacia, African spurred tortoise, Agency for French Education Abroad, Alfred-Amédée Dodds, Amadou Bamba, Amadou Lamine-Guèye, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Arabian Peninsula, Assemblies of God, Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic slave trade, Badara Ndiaye, Bahia, Bamba Fall, Battle of Leybar Bridge, Battling Siki, BBC News, Berbers, BK VEF Rīga, Blaise Diagne, Bologna, Bordeaux, British capture of Senegal, British Empire, Canonization, Cartagena, Spain, Casuarina equisetifolia, Catholic Church, Christianity, Climate change, Climate change vulnerability, Common patas monkey, Cuba, Dakar, Dakar–Saint-Louis railway, Dama gazelle, Departments of Senegal, Desert climate, Diama Dam, Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary, Dutch colonial empire, Dyeing, Eau de vie, El Hadji Diouf, Emirate of Trarza, Faidherbe Bridge, Fez, Morocco, Flamingo, Flood, ... Expand index (69 more) »

  2. 1659 establishments in Africa
  3. 1659 establishments in the French colonial empire
  4. Populated coastal places in Senegal
  5. Populated places established in 1659
  6. Populated places in Saint-Louis Region
  7. Regional capitals in Senegal
  8. Saint-Louis Region
  9. Senegal River
  10. World Heritage Sites in Senegal

Abdoulaye Seye

Abdoulaye Seye (30 July 1934 – 13 October 2011) was a Senegalese sprinter.

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Acacia

Acacia, commonly known as wattles or acacias, is a genus of about of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae.

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African spurred tortoise

The African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata), also called the sulcata tortoise, is an endangered species of tortoise inhabiting the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, the Sahel, in Africa.

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Agency for French Education Abroad

The Agency for French Education Abroad, or Agency for French Teaching Abroad, (Agence pour l'enseignement français à l'étranger; AEFE), is a national public agency under the administration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France that assures the quality of schools teaching the French national curriculum outside France.

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Alfred-Amédée Dodds

Alfred Amédée Dodds (6 February 1842 – 17 July 1922) was the commander of French forces in Senegal from 1890, commander of French forces in the second expeditionary force to suppress the Boxer Rebellion, and commander of French forces during the First and Second Franco-Dahomean War.

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Amadou Bamba

Ahmadu Bamba Mbacke (أحمدو بامبا مباك, 1853–1927) also known to followers as the Servant of the Messenger (Khādim al-Rasūl) and Serigne Touba or "Sheikh of Touba", was a Sufi saint and religious leader in Senegal and the founder of the large Mouride Brotherhood (the Muridiyya).

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Amadou Lamine-Guèye

Amadou Lamine-Guèye (20 September 1891 in Médine, French Sudan – 10 June 1968 in Dakar) was a Senegalese politician who became leader of the Parti Sénégalais de l'Action Socialiste ("Senegalese Party of Socialist Action").

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, Vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ((29 June 1900;– 31 July 1944), was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator. He received several prestigious literary awards for his novella The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) and for his lyrical aviation writings, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight (Vol de nuit).

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Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.

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Assemblies of God

The World Assemblies of God (AG), officially the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, is an international Pentecostal denomination.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Atlantic slave trade

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas.

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Badara Ndiaye

Badara Ndiaye (born 31 March 1986 in Kaolack) is a Senegalese-born American and French visual artist, journalist, fashion designer, photographer, filmmaker, model, and former NCAA Division I basketball player.

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Bahia

Bahia is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region of the country.

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Bamba Fall

Bamba Fall (born May 27, 1986) is a Senegalese professional basketball player who currently plays for Fundación CB Granada of the Spanish LEB Oro league.

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Battle of Leybar Bridge

The Battle of Leybar Bridge was fought on 21 April 1855 between the Trarza army of Mohammed al-Habib and the French garrison of the tower on Leybar Bridge, outside of Saint-Louis in the French colony of Senegal, during the Second Franco-Trarza War.

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Battling Siki

Louis Mbarick Fall (16 September 1897 – 15 December 1925), known as Battling Siki, was a Senegalese light heavyweight boxer born in Senegal who fought from 1912 to 1925, and briefly reigned as the World light heavyweight champion after knocking out Georges Carpentier.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Berbers

Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also called by their endonym Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migrations to the Maghreb.

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BK VEF Rīga

VEF Rīga is a Latvian professional basketball team that is based in Riga, Latvia.

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Blaise Diagne

Blaise Diagne (13 October 1872 – 11 May 1934) was a French political leader and mayor of Dakar.

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Bologna

Bologna (Bulåggna; Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region, in northern Italy.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Bordèu; Bordele) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France.

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British capture of Senegal

The British capture of Senegal took place in 1758 during the Seven Years' War with France, as part of a concerted British strategy to weaken the French economy by damaging her international trade.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Canonization

Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of saints, or authorized list of that communion's recognized saints.

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Cartagena, Spain

Cartagena is a Spanish city and a major naval station on the Mediterranean coast, south-eastern Iberia.

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Casuarina equisetifolia

Casuarina equisetifolia, commonly known as coastal she-oak, horsetail she-oak, ironwood, beach sheoak, beach casuarina, whistling tree or Australian pine is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is native to Australia, New Guinea, Southeast Asia and India.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Climate change vulnerability

Climate change vulnerability is a concept that describes how strongly people or ecosystems are likely to be affected by climate change.

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Common patas monkey

The common patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas), also known as the hussar monkey, is a ground-dwelling monkey distributed over semi-arid areas of West Africa, and into East Africa.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Dakar

Dakar (Ndakaaru) is the capital and largest city of Senegal. Saint-Louis, Senegal and Dakar are communes of Senegal, French West Africa, Populated coastal places in Senegal and Regional capitals in Senegal.

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Dakar–Saint-Louis railway

The railroad linking Dakar (Senegal) to Saint-Louis (French: Chemin de fer Dakar-Saint-Louis) was the first railroad line in French West Africa when it opened in 1885.

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Dama gazelle

The dama gazelle (Nanger dama), also known as the addra gazelle or mhorr gazelle, is a species of gazelle.

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Departments of Senegal

The 14 regions of Senegal are subdivided into 46 departments and 103 arrondissements (neither of which have administrative function) and by collectivités locales (the 14 régions, 110 communes, and 320 communautés rurales) which elect administrative officers.

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Desert climate

The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk) is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation.

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Diama Dam

The Diama Dam, sometimes referred to as the Maka–Diama Dam (French: Barrage de Maka-Diama) is a gravity dam on the Senegal River, spanning the border of Senegal and Mauritania. Saint-Louis, Senegal and Diama Dam are saint-Louis Region.

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Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary

The Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary (Parc national des oiseaux du Djoudj) lies on the southeast bank of the Senegal River in Senegal, in northern Biffeche, north east of St-Louis. Saint-Louis, Senegal and Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary are world Heritage Sites in Senegal.

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Dutch colonial empire

The Dutch colonial empire (Nederlandse koloniale rijk) comprised the overseas territories and trading posts controlled and administered by Dutch chartered companies—mainly the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company—and subsequently by the Dutch Republic (1581–1795), and by the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands after 1815.

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Dyeing

Dyeing is the application of dyes or pigments on textile materials such as fibers, yarns, and fabrics with the goal of achieving color with desired color fastness.

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Eau de vie

An eau de vie (French for spirit, §16, §17) is a clear, colourless fruit brandy that is produced by means of fermentation and double distillation.

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El Hadji Diouf

El Hadji Ousseynou Diouf (born 15 January 1981) is a Senegalese former professional footballer.

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Emirate of Trarza

The Emirate of Trarza was a precolonial state in what is today southwest Mauritania. Saint-Louis, Senegal and Emirate of Trarza are French West Africa.

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Faidherbe Bridge

Faidherbe Bridge (Pont Faidherbe) is a road bridge over the Senegal River which links the island of the city of Saint-Louis in Senegal to the African mainland.

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Fez, Morocco

Fez or Fes (fās) is a city in northern inland Morocco and the capital of the Fès-Meknès administrative region.

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Flamingo

Flamingos or flamingoes are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae, which is the only extant family in the order Phoenicopteriformes.

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Flood

A flood is an overflow of water (or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry.

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François-Edmond Fortier

François-Edmond Fortier (2 September 1862, Plaine, France – 8 February 1928, Dakar, Senegal, French West Africa) was a French documentary photographer, editor and ethnographer.

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Francization

Francization (in American English, Canadian English, and Oxford English) or Francisation (in other British English), also known as Frenchification, is the expansion of French language use—either through willful adoption or coercion—by more and more social groups who had not before used the language as a common means of expression in daily life.

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French West Africa

French West Africa (Afrique-Occidentale française, italic) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Ivory Coast, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Dahomey (now Benin) and Niger.

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Fula people

The Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe people are an ethnic group in Sahara, Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region.

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G.I.

G.I. is an informal term that refers to "a soldier in the United States armed forces, especially the army".

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Gajaaga

Gajaaga, also known as Galam, was a Soninke kingdom in on the upper Senegal river that existed from before 1000CE to 1858.

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Gaston Berger University

Gaston Berger University (GBU), or L'Université Gaston Berger (UGB), located some outside Saint-Louis, was the second university established in Senegal (the first being Cheikh Anta Diop University).

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Gorée

italic ("Gorée Island"; Beer Dun) is one of the 19 communes d'arrondissement (i.e. districts) of the city of Dakar, Senegal. Saint-Louis, Senegal and Gorée are French West Africa and world Heritage Sites in Senegal.

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Greenwich Mean Time

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the local mean time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight.

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Gum arabic

Gum arabic (gum acacia, gum sudani, Senegal gum and by other names) is a natural gum originally consisting of the hardened sap of two species of the Acacia tree, Senegalia senegal and Vachellia seyal. However, the term "gum arabic" does not actually indicate a particular botanical source.

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Hajj

Hajj (translit; also spelled Hadj, Haj or Haji) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims.

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Harmattan

The Harmattan is a season in West Africa that occurs between the end of November and the middle of March.

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Havana

Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Islam in Senegal

Islam is the predominant religion in Senegal.

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Island

An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water.

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Ismaïla Sarr

Ismaïla Sarr (born 25 February 1998) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Premier League club Crystal Palace and the Senegal national team.

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Jean-Baptiste Labat

Jean-Baptiste Labat (sometimes called, simply, Père Labat) (1663 – 6 January 1738) was a French clergyman, botanist, writer, explorer, ethnographer, soldier, engineer, and landowner.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kingdom of France

The Kingdom of France is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities of France in the medieval and early modern period.

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Langue de Barbarie

The Langue de Barbarie (French for "Barbary spit of land", named after the Barbary Coast) is a thin, sandy peninsula, adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean, located in western Senegal, in the neighbourhood of the city of Saint-Louis. Saint-Louis, Senegal and Langue de Barbarie are senegal River.

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Liège

Liège (Lîdje; Luik; Lüttich) is a city and municipality of Wallonia and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège.

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Lille

Lille (Rijsel; Lile; Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders.

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List of cities in Senegal

This is a list of cities in Senegal organised by population.

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List of French monarchs

France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions.

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List of mayors of Saint-Louis, Senegal

The following is a list of mayors of the city of Saint-Louis, Senegal.

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Louis Faidherbe

Louis Léon César Faidherbe (3 June 1818 – 29 September 1889) was a French general and colonial administrator.

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Louis IX of France

Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), commonly revered as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270.

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Louis XIV

LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Malick Sy

El-Hadji Malick Sy (Allaaji Maalik Si, 1853–1922) was a Senegalese religious leader and teacher in the Tijaniyya Sufi Malikite and Ash'arite brotherhood.

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Mansour Faye

Mansour Faye is a Senegalese politician.

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Mauritania

Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara. Saint-Louis, Senegal and Mauritania are French West Africa.

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Mauritania–Senegal border

The Mauritania–Senegal border is in length and runs from the Atlantic Ocean in the west along the Senegal River to the tripoint with Mali in the east.

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Mecca

Mecca (officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam.

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Michel Adanson

Michel Adanson (7 April 17273 August 1806) was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who traveled to Senegal to study flora and fauna.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Pelican

Pelicans (genus Pelecanus) are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae.

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Pint

The pint (symbol pt, sometimes abbreviated as p) is a unit of volume or capacity in both the imperial and United States customary measurement systems.

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Place of worship

A place of worship is a specially designed structure or space where individuals or a group of people such as a congregation come to perform acts of devotion, veneration, or religious study.

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Portuguese Empire

The Portuguese Empire (Império Português), also known as the Portuguese Overseas or the Portuguese Colonial Empire, was composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the Kingdom of Portugal, and later the Republic of Portugal.

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Radio France Internationale

Radio France Internationale, usually referred to as RFI, is the state-owned international radio news network of France.

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Regions of Senegal

Senegal is subdivided into 14 regions (French: régions, singularrégion), each of which is administered by a Conseil Régional (pl.: Conseils Régionaux) elected by population weight at the arrondissement level.

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Richard Toll

Richard Toll is a town and urban commune in northern Senegal, lying on the south bank of the River Senegal, just east of Rosso. Saint-Louis, Senegal and Richard Toll are communes of Senegal and Populated places in Saint-Louis Region.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Louis du Sénégal

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Louis du Sénégal (Sancti Ludovici Senegalen(sis), French: Diocèse catholique romain de Saint-Louis du Sénégal) is a diocese located in the city of Saint-Louis in the ecclesiastical province of Dakar in Senegal.

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Rosso

Rosso is the major city of south-western Mauritania and capital of Trarza region.

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Sahel

The Sahel region or Sahelian acacia savanna is a biogeographical region in Africa.

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Saint Louis

Saint Louis, Saint-Louis or St.

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Saint-Louis Department

Saint-Louis Department is one of the 45 departments of Senegal, located in the Saint-Louis Region. Saint-Louis, Senegal and Saint-Louis Department are saint-Louis Region.

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Saint-Louis Region

The Saint-Louis Region of Senegal is on the border with Mauritania.

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Salt marsh

A salt marsh, saltmarsh or salting, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides.

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Sea level rise

Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rise was, with an increase of per year since the 1970s.

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Senegal

Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country. Saint-Louis, Senegal and Senegal are French West Africa.

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Senegal River

The Senegal River (Dexug Senegaal, Nahr as-Siniġāl, Fleuve Sénégal) is a river in West Africa; much of its length marks part of the border between Senegal and Mauritania.

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Seven Years' War

The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas.

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Signare

Signares were black and mulatto Senegalese women who had an influence via their marriage with European men and their patrimony.

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Sister city

A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.

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Spit (landform)

A spit or sandspit is a deposition bar or beach landform off coasts or lake shores.

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St. Louis

St.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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United Nations Human Settlements Programme

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the United Nations programme for human settlements and sustainable urban development.

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Universal Church of the Kingdom of God

The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG; Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus; Iglesia Universal del Reino de Dios, IURD) is an international Evangelical Neo-charismatic Christian denomination with its headquarters at the Temple of Solomon in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Waalo

Waalo (Waalo) was a kingdom on the lower Senegal River in West Africa, in what is now Senegal and Mauritania. Saint-Louis, Senegal and Waalo are French West Africa.

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West Africa

West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.

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Wolof language

Wolof (Wolof làkk, وࣷلࣷفْ لࣵکّ) is a Niger–Congo language spoken by the Wolof people in much of West African subregion of Senegambia that is split between the countries of Senegal, Mauritania, and the Gambia.

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World Heritage Site

World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

1659 establishments in Africa

1659 establishments in the French colonial empire

  • Saint-Louis, Senegal

Populated coastal places in Senegal

Populated places established in 1659

Populated places in Saint-Louis Region

Regional capitals in Senegal

Saint-Louis Region

Senegal River

World Heritage Sites in Senegal

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Louis,_Senegal

Also known as Fort Louis, Senegal, Ndar, Saint Louis, Senegal, Saint-Louis (Sénégal), Saint-Louis Academy, Saint-Louis Island, Saint-Louis du Sénégal, St Louis (Senegal), St. Louis, senegal.

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