Binger, who visited in the late 1880s, judged from its deep refuse that Bondoukou was older than Djenné and founded before 1043, and took it for the Bitu of the Timbuktu chronicles.
That identification passed to Begho (Wilks), and Bondoukou as a Dyula trading town is now traced to refugees from Begho in the eighteenth century (Massing 2012, as cited). On 1 January 1200 there may be a Kulango village on the site; nothing more is shown.
Who holds it
- Title
- Not known
- Since
- Not known
- Confidence
- low
Lord in 1200
No lord known.
Walls and castle
See summary.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: A nineteenth-century traveller's guess against later scholarship.
Sources and studies
- Bondoukou (French Wikipedia, quoting L.-G. Binger, Du Niger au golfe de Guinée, 1892)
- Begho (Wikipedia, citing Massing 2012 on Kong and Bondoukou)
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