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    Fouta Djallon (Fula: Fuuta Jaloo, ࢻُوتَ جَلࣾو‎, 𞤊𞤵𞥅𞤼𞤢 𞤔𞤢𞤤𞤮𞥅; Arabic: فوتا جالون) is a highland region in the center of Guinea, roughly corresponding...
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  • Fouta may refer to: Fouta Djallon, a highland region in the centre of Guinea Fouta towel, a piece of thin patterned fabric used in many Mediterranean countries...
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    The fouta (also spelled futa; Arabic: فوطة) is a piece of thin patterned cotton or linen fabric of Tunisian origin[citation needed] used in many Mediterranean...
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  • Firin' in Fouta is an album by the Senegalese singer Baaba Maal, released in 1994. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award, in the "Best World Music...
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    Futa Tooro (redirect from Fouta-Toro)
    several Fulani states, and a source of jihad armies and migrants to the Fouta Djallon. The word Futa is a general name the Fulbe gave to any area they...
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    The Imamate of Futa Toro (Arabic: إمامة فوتة تورو) was a West African theocratic monarchy of the Fula-speaking people (Fulɓe and Toucouleurs) in the middle...
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    Al-Fouta (Arabic: الفوطة), alternatively transliterated as al-Futah, is a neighborhood in central Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located south of al-Murabba and...
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  • Technology Akure in Nigeria André-Philippe Futa Futa Helu Yasunosuke Futa Fouta towel or futa towel, a piece of cloth worn in a skirt-like fashion in certain...
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    into four geographic regions: Maritime Guinea on the Atlantic coast, the Fouta Djallon or Middle Guinea highlands, the Upper Guinea savanna region in the...
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  • (𞤆𞤵𞤤𞤢𞤪) is a Fula language spoken primarily by the Fula people of Fouta Djallon, Guinea. It is also spoken in parts of Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone...
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  • Télimélé is a town in the Fouta Djallon highlands of Guinea . Its population was estimated at 15,973 in 2008. It is the capital of Télimélé Prefecture...
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    the Emirate of Timbo,: 50  was a West African Islamic State based in the Fouta Djallon highlands of modern Guinea. The state was founded in 1725 by a Fulani...
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    personality of Fouta Djallon. He is regarded as one of the most important representatives of Islamic science and Fula culture of Fouta Djallon. Thierno...
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    confused with Pular, another variety of Fula spoken in Guinea (including the Fouta Djallon region). The Pulaar and Pular varieties of Fula are to some extent...
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    worked as an agricultural engineer. In 2002 she and Bonata Dieng founded the Fouta Djallon Museum in Labé. Moi, femme (Me, a woman), 1994. Pellun Gondhi, Guinée:...
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    include Boenca or Boyenca (Guinea-Bissau), Fouta Jallon, Djallonké or Djallonké cattle, Fouta Longhorn, Fouta Malinke, Futa, Malinke, Mandingo (Liberia)...
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    other names for the group as a whole include African Dwarf, Djallonké or Fouta Jallon, Grassland Dwarf or Chèvre Naine des Savanes, Guinean or Guinean...
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    Mamou (Pular: 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤥𞤵𞤲) is a city and sub-prefecture in a valley of the Fouta Djallon area of Guinea. The population is 376,269 (2018 est). It grew around...
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  • Bolo-Fouta is a rural commune in the Cercle of Yanfolila in the Sikasso Region of southern Mali. The commune covers an area of 171 square kilometers and...
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    off and changing, often used poolside, at the beach or after swimming. A fouta towel is a Tunisian hammam and beach towel, which is also used as a pareo...
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  • great twentieth century poets of Fouta Djallon. The son of Môdi Abdoulaye Diallo, he was named Chief of Mouminia by the Fouta elite and developed in a strict...
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  • Al-Fouta Park (Arabic: حديقة الفوطة, possibly attributing to Ghouta), is a municipal park in the al-Fouta neighborhood of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located...
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    Guinea) a coastal plain running north to south behind the coast; the pastoral Fouta Djallon highlands (Middle Guinea); the northern savanna (Upper Guinea);...
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  • The Foutanké or Fouta is a breed or type of light horse from Senegal, in West Africa. It results from the cross-breeding of a Fleuve stallion with an...
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    1864: Found from Burkina Faso and northern Ghana east to southern Sudan Fouta-Djallon sun lark (G. m. nigrita) - (Grote, 1920): Found in Senegal, Gambia...
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    19th-century Fouta Djallon king Alpha Yayo Diallo. The music of the anthem is derived from a praise song for the late-1800s king of Labé, in Fouta Djallon...
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    (RPB 33), Senegalese Navy Conejera (Class Conejera P 31), Senegalese Navy Fouta (Osprey 55), Senegalese Navy Njambuur (PR 72), Senegalese Navy Fearless-class...
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    major river in West Africa, running 1,120 kilometres (700 mi) from the Fouta Djallon plateau in north Guinea westward through Senegal and The Gambia...
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  • Iolaus djaloni, the Fouta Djalon sapphire, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea. The habitat consists of dry forests. Adults...
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    Descendants of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Fula migrant settlers from the Fouta Djalon region of Guinea, they live primarily in the northeast and the western...
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