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Samori Ture
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African warlord and religious leader, founder of the Wassoulou Empire (1830–1900)
Key facts
- Reign
- 1878–1898
- Predecessor
- position established
- Successor
- position abolished
- Born
- c. 1830 , Manyambaladugu
- Died
- June 2, 1900 (1900-06-02) (aged 71–72), Gabon
- Religion
- Sunni Islam
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Guinea
- Place of death
- Ndjolé
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Position held
- monarch
- Languages spoken
- Mandinka
- Religion
- Islam
- Image
- Almamy Samory Touré.jpg
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- Commons category
- Samory Touré
- date of death
- 1900-06-02
- date of birth
- 1830-01-01
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- pneumonia
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Encyclopedic overview
Samori Ture (c. 1828 – June 2, 1900), also known as Samori Toure, Samory Touré, or Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure, was a Malinke Muslim cleric, military strategist, and founder of an empire that stretched across present-day north and eastern Guinea, north-eastern Sierra Leone, southern Mali, northern Côte d'Ivoire and part of southern Burkina Faso.
A deeply religious Muslim of the Maliki school of religious jurisprudence of Sunni Islam, he organized his empire and justified its expansion with Islamic principles. Ture resisted French colonial rule in West Africa from 1882 until his capture in 1898.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Samori Ture” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.