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The Battle of Fandane-Thiouthioune
The Battle of Fandane-Thiouthioune
(or
Thiouthiogne
), also known as
The Battle of Somb
or
The Battle of Somb-Tioutioune
, occurred on 18 July 1867. It was a
religious war
between the
Serer people
and the
Muslim
Marabouts
of the 19th century in
Senegal
and
The Gambia
, but it also had a political and economic dimension to it:
vendetta
and
empire-building
.
Fandane
,
Thiouthioune
and
Somb
were part of the pre-colonial Serer
Kingdom of Sine
now part of independent Senegal.
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