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Ali Shandora
Ali Shandora was emir of Trarza, a Moorish emirate north of the Senegal River in present-day Mauritania, in the early 18th century. He made Trarza a regional power, sought alliances with Morocco and traded gum arabic with the French and Dutch, and the emirs of Trarza came to dominate the neighbouring Waalo kingdom.
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