| LC control no. | n 83025340 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Samory, approximately 1830-1900 |
| Variant(s) | Samodu, approximately 1830-1900 Samori Touré, approximately 1830-1900 Samory, ca. 1830-1900 Samory Touré, ca. 1830-1900 Touré, Samory, approximately 1830-1900 |
| Associated country | Guinea |
| Birth date | 1830~ |
| Death date | 1900 |
| Profession or occupation | Kings and rulers |
| Found in | Duboc, A. A. L. Samory le sanglant, 1947. Freestone, B. The horsemen from beyond, c1981: p. 22 (Samory, the great Almami Samodu) Wikipedia, July 7, 2017 (Samori Ture (also known as Samori Toure, Samory Touré, or Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure, c. 1830 - June 2, 1900) was a Guinean Muslim cleric, and the founder and leader of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic empire that was in present-day southeastern Guinea and was also part of north-eastern Sierra Leone, part of Mali and part of northern Côte d'Ivoire; he resisted French colonial rule in West Africa from 1882 until his capture in 1898; Samori was the great-grandfather of Guinea's first president, Ahmed Sékou Touré) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samori_Ture> |
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