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epidemics (in 1857 of 50 Europeans in the three trading posts of
Assinie, Grand-Bassam and Dabou, 32 died and 10 were repatriated) and British competition (Victor Régis, pioneer of French trade on this coast since 1843, had to close shop in the early 1860s). However, the first Post Office opened on
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Relation du voyage du royaume d'Issyny, Côte-d'Or, païs de Guinée, en
Afrique . La description du païs, les inclinations, les mœurs, & la religion des habitans : avec ce qui s'y est paßé de plus remarquable dans l'établissement que les François y ont fait. Le tout exactement recueilli sur
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Assinie area starts at the location of the Paul-Emile Durand cottage in the west bordered to the south by the ocean and accessible by the Assinie-Mafia road. Opposite the town of Assinie-Mafia is a narrow peninsula (100–1000 m wide) extending from the west and 15 km long which is
232:. Access to the area is by road A100 going east from Abidjan then turning right to the B-107 road (Route Assinie) then Route Assinie-Mafia along the coast. The road ends at Assinie-Mafia. Assinie-Mafia is a long narrow settlement along the coast on both sides of the outlet of
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Relation du voyage du royaume d’Issyny, Côte d’Or, païs de Guinée, en
Afrique :la description du païs, les inclinations, les moeurs, & la religion des habitans : avec ce qui s’y est passé de plus remarquable dans l’établissement que les François y ont
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An inspection of the fortified trading post at Assini in 1850 mentioned: "order and cleanliness reign within its walls", the existence of a bastion of masonry (four were originally planned), and the presence of small artillery equivalent to that at
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les lieux, par le R. Pere
Godefroy Loyer, préfet apostolique des missions des FF. prêcheurs, aux côtes de Guinée en Afrique, religieux du convent de Bonne-Nouvelle de Rennes en Bretagne. Enrichie de figures en taille-douce
453:, Amon Ndoufou. At that time skirmishes with the English were frequent and prevented operations in the interior of the country. It is inside these forts that the first trading posts were established in the next few years.
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D'Amon took two young men from
Assinie to France: Aniaba, said to be a prince, and Banga, an interpreter who may also have been Aniaba's cousin. In France, the two were presented to King
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Assinie was the third largest port in Ivory Coast in 1907 but it quickly lost all commercial and strategic importance in favour of
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Année dominicaine, ou Les vies des saints... de l'ordre des frères prêcheurs, pour tous les jours de l'année, avec un martyrologe
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did not earn enough as compared to the farming of grain. French priest
Godefroy Loyer, who was sent to Assinie in 1701 as an
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Grand Bassam and the trading posts on the coast: Assinie, Jacqueville, Grand Lahou, Fresco, Sassandra, San Pedro
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traffic. The French built and occupied Fort Saint-Louis from 1701 to 1704, but left in 1705, because the
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The first sustainable fort on the Coast after Fort Saint-Louis from 1701 to 1704 was Fort
Joinville in
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occupied by luxury villas and huts. Access is by car, private boats, or canoes across the lagoon.
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Assinie-Mafia and their population in 2014 are:
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The area is a favourite destination for wealthy inhabitants of
Abidjan for the weekend.
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until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished.
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was the first to really bring value to the Assinie region from 1870. The first
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Relation du voyage du Royaume d'Issyny, Côte d'Or, païs de Guinée, en Afrique
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Dominicans in Africa: A History of the Dominican Friars in Sub-Sahara Africa
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In 2014, the population of the sub-prefecture of Assinie-Mafia was 16,721.
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Document from the National Archives of Ivory Coast, Dossier 1 EE 1 (10)
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Voyage du Chevalier des Marchais en Guinée Isles Voisines et à Cayènne
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were planted in 1881 and at the same time the cultivation of
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on 8 August 1887 with teacher Fritz-Emile Jeand'heur from
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The French penetration of the region was counteracted by
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Histoire des ordres monastiques, religieux et militaires
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which led to a treaty between France and the King of
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Assinie-Mafia is located 80 kilometres east of
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Castor: a government interpreter at Assinie in 1892
333:The King of Assinie (by Achille Sirouy) 1890-1893
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515:The first official French school was created at
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713:An Introduction to the History of West Africa
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16:Town and sub-prefecture in Comoé, Ivory Coast
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649:(in French). Groupe Robert Laffont.
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874:Assinie and the Kingdom of Krinjabo
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913:. A Paris, A. Seneuze, 1714.
864:Ten years on the Ivory Coast
854:The Ivory Coast by the texts
676:(in French). CNRS editions.
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770:LABAT, R. Pere (1730).
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228:along the coast of the
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776:(in French). Sangrain.
646:Dictionnaire Louis XIV
384:Jean-Baptiste du Casse
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585:Google Maps
565:geohive.com
497:Bingerville
487:The decline
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274:Les Bronzés
257:tchoukourou
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501:Port-Bouët
380:Gold Coast
362:Saint-Malo
234:Aby Lagoon
200:. It is a
162:Population
151:Department
541:Maracanas
511:Education
451:Krindjabo
443:Kerhallet
411:Louis XIV
375:Code noir
220:Geography
176:Time zone
144:Sud-Comoé
30:Town and
1062:Etuéboué
1008:Bianouan
893:, 1975,
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628:5 August
355:Capuchin
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252:La Passe
127:District
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1115:Nouamou
1013:Kouakro
997:Adjouan
986:Aboisso
970:Aboisso
521:Algeria
505:Abidjan
495:, then
419:Bossuet
325:History
241:commune
226:Abidjan
108:Country
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1051:Adiaké
1018:Maféré
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156:Adiaké
139:Region
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992:Adaou
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481:cocoa
181:UTC+0
132:Comoé
80:5°8′N
1024:Yaou
911:fait
733:ISBN
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572:2015
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392:gold
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