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Bakel
Bakel is a town on the Senegal River in eastern Senegal, near the borders with Mali and Mauritania. The French built a fort there around 1820 as a trading post in the Soninke kingdom of Gajaaga, and it later served as a base for French expansion along the upper Senegal.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Bakel. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/bakel
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