Town · West Africa: the Sudan and Guinea · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Bouna

The later royal and Dyula town of the Bouna kingdom, which the usual account (not checked in this session) dates to about 1600 under Bunkani, a prince from the Dagomba country who conquered the Kulango.

On 1 January 1200 the site belongs to the Kulango; whether a village stood there is not known.

Who holds it

Title
Not known
Since
Not known
Confidence
low

Lord in 1200

No lord known.

How things stand that morning

Kulango country.

Walls and castle

See summary.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Later tradition only.

Sources and studies

  1. Researcher's general knowledge of the ethnography and linguistic geography of Ghana and Togo (present-day distributions), used only to place peoples whose 1200 seats are not recorded

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