Samori Ture

founder of the Wassoulou Empire

Samori Ture (c. 1830 – June 2, 1900), also known as Samori Toure, Samory Touré, or Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure, was a Muslim cleric, a military strategist, and the founder and leader of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic empire that was in present-day north and south-eastern Guinea and included part of north-eastern Sierra Leone, part of Mali, part of northern Côte d'Ivoire and part of southern Burkina Faso. Samori Ture was a deeply religious Muslim of the Maliki jurisprudence of Sunni Islam.

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Samori Ture was born on 1830 in Manyambaladugu, Guinea. They were best known as a royal family member. Ture's country of citizenship (nationality) was Guinean. They died on Saturday, 2 June 1900 in Gabon at the age of 69.

You can find people similar to Samori Ture by visiting our lists History of Guinea and History of Ivory Coast.

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Date of death	2 June 1900	edit
Age	69 (age at death)
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Nationality	Guinean	edit

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