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Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · BFA LEFT · CIV RIGHT

1. c. 1710

   Seku Watara founds the Empire of Kong

   Seku Watara united the Dyula of Kong into a state, often called the Wattara Empire, that grew rich controlling the gold and kola trade and reached into present-day Burkina Faso, Mali, and Ghana.

   Formation · from the Ivory Coast chronicle · The northern savannas, the Dyula, and the Empire of Kong · REFS 2 — Kong Empire, History of Ivory Coast