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Baol polity       Search catalogue 294900594

APP
2002-02-12

INP
2002-02-12

STA
Approved

UPD
2012-07-20

DUT
Baol rijk

IND
1

MIS
HR. ASAR. The Kigdom of Baol in central Senegal was one of the kingdoms that arose from the split-up of the Empire of Jolof (Diolof) in about 1549. It included a strip of land extending east from the ocean (from old Portudal on the coast south of Cap-Vert, where Dakar is) inland to Diourbel and including Touba and MBacke. It was directly south of the Kingdom of Cayor and north of the Kingdom of Sine. The 'Tiegne' or king of Baol was a relative of the 'Damel' (king) of Cayor. The kingdom was founded in secession from the third Damel of Cayor, by his own son, who killed him, and the history of Baol includes repeated attempts, only sometimes successful, of the Damels of Cayor to re-conquer Baol. At one time the Serer king of the Kingdom Damel near the end of the 18th century. Cayor and Baol were conquered by the French in the 19th century along with the rest of Senegal, in the campaigns of Governor Louis Faidherbe (Wikipedia).

PPN
294900594

UDC
340.141.1Baol

SN
ca. 1550-1877. Location: on the Senegal coast and inland, occupying the area south of Dakar.

MRF
321Baol

BT1
Senegalese polities

UF
Baol Kingdom
Bawol Kingdom

BSO
09.01.02 NAMED POLITIES

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