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Guinea

République de Guinée

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By 1863 the French had established some trading bases on the coast, called ‘Rivières du Sud’, and a protectorate over the district of Boké, which at the time was ruled by Fulani chiefs. The name, of the colony (organized in 1891) was in 1893 changed from Rivières du Sud to Guinée Française.

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© 1963 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Steinberg, S.H. (1963). Guinea. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270923_55

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