Kaarta

Kaarta was a short-lived Bambara kingdom in what is today the western half of Mali.

As Bitòn Coulibaly tightened his control over Ségou, capital of his newly-founded Bambara Empire, a faction of Ségou Bambara dissatisfied with his rule fled west. In 1753, they founded the kingdom of Kaarta on the homeland of the long-defunct Ghana Empire, taking Nioro du Sahel as their capital. The kingdom was destroyed as an independent force in the early 1850s by El Hadj Umar Tall's jihad across West Africa; Umar Tall seized Nioro, and put the Kaarta king Mamady Kandian and his entire family to death. French Colonel Louis Archinard later conquered the territory of the former Kaarta kingdom in 1890.

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