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Casamance
The Casamance is the region of southern Senegal lying between The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau, drained by the Casamance River. Its name is traditionally derived from Kasa Mansa, the title of the king of the Bainuk kingdom of Kasa whom the Portuguese met in the 15th century. Long a Portuguese trading zone, it passed to France in the 1880s, and a separatist conflict affected the region from 1982.
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