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Kong - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Triaud, Jean-Louis
Leiden
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Kong , a sleepy town of 29,190 inhabitants (2014) in northern Côte d'Ivoire, gives little indication of its former glory. As with Timbuktu, Kong fascinated nineteenth-century geographers, who mistakenly associated it with imaginary mountains. In 1888, the French officer, colonial administrator, and explorer Louis-Gustave Binger (d. 1936) was the first European to enter the city, which he described as endowed with five mosques and flat-roofed houses constructed of adobe in Sudano-Sahelian style. Kong arose as a wayside market on the long-distance routes of Jula (
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
9789004356665
Islam.
Miran-Guyon, Marie
Triaud, Jean-Louis
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