Gaananci exhibits noted inflected influences from Zarma, Gur, Dyula and Soninke, as Ghana is the westernmost area in which the Hausa language is a major lingua-franca ; as well as it being the westernmost area both the Hausa and Djerma ethnic groups inhabit in large numbers.

Many terms from Arabic, Hausa and Dyula are seen in the Dagbani language, due to the importance of trans-saharan trade and West African trade and the historic impact that the Islamic religion has had in the area.

By rallying around himself all dyula in the area, Seku Wattara easily defeated local chiefdoms and set up an independent Dyula state in 1710, the first of its kind in West Africa.

Born c. 1830 in Manyambaladugu ( in what is now southeastern Guinea ), the son of Dyula traders, Samore grew up in West Africa being transformed by growing contacts with the Europeans.

Traoré fought a number of battles with both Dyula conqueror Samory Touré and the rapidly advancing French colonial army, including a prolonged French siege of Sikasso from 1887 to 1888.

The capital, Sikasso, was beset at this time by both the Dyula forces of Samory Touré and by the rapidly advancing French colonial army.

This last link became more important with the advent of Portuguese and other European trading posts in the 17th century, and much of the overland trade connecting the coast and interior ( including the African slave trade ) was controlled by Dyula merchants.

Characterized as a highly successful merchant caste, Dyula migrants began establishing trading communities across the region in the fourteenth century.

Traffic of " ebony " is also an issue for warriors who traditionally reduces the vanquished to slavery, some people specialized in the slave trade – in the case of Dyula in West Africa – states and kingdoms also competed, as well as private traders who became much richer in the triangular trade, although some shipments sometimes resulted in real financial disaster.

These people, often called Dyula after the Mandé word for " merchant ", built communities in trading centers, spaced along trade routes, and near mining and agricultural centers, beginning during the Mali Empire.

Their best-known members are Bambara, the most widely spoken language in Mali ; Mandinka, the main language of Gambia ; Maninka or Malinké, a major language of Guinea ; and Dyula, a trade language of the northern Ivory Coast and western Burkina Faso.

The Gyil's design is similar to the Balaba or Balafon used by the Mande-speaking Bambara, Dyula and Sosso peoples further west in southern Mali and western Burkina Faso, a region that shares many musical traditions with those of northern Côte d ' Ivoire and Ghana.

The reaction of the Dyula in the Bono-Banda-Gonja region to these developments was to erect a kingdom of their own in Gonja-the territory northern traders had to cross to reach Akan forestlands, situated in what is now modern Ghana.

Since business was often conducted under non-Muslim rulers, the Dyula developed a set of theological principles for Muslim minorities in non-Muslim societies.

In 1881, after numerous struggles, Samore was able to secure control of the key Dyula trading center of Kankan, on the upper Milo River.

The Wassoulou Empire, sometimes referred to as the Mandinka Empire, was a short-lived ( 1878 – 1898 ) empire of West Africa built from the conquests of Dyula ruler Samori Touré and destroyed by the French colonial army.

Bissandugu, a city in what is now southwestern Guinea, was the native city of Dyula conqueror Samori Ture.

Jula ( Dyula, Dioula ) is a Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso, Côte d ' Ivoire, and Mali.

The Dyula ( Dioula or Juula ) are a Mande ethnic group inhabiting several West African countries, including the Mali, Cote d ' Ivoire, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.

Dyula traders had never enjoyed as much prosperity as they did under the almamy.

Dyula society is hierarchical or caste-based, with nobility and vassals.

Dyula communities have a reputation for historically maintaining a high standard of Muslim education.

He established his palace on the sacred Mamelon hill ( now home to a water tower ) and constructed a tata or fortifying wall to defend against the attacks of both the Dyula conqueror Samori Ture and the French colonial army.

Other large Mandé groups include the Soninke, Bambara and Dyula.

The black duiker ( Cephalophus niger, also known as tuba in Dyula ) is a forest-dwelling duiker found in the southern parts of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d ' Ivoire, Ghana, Benin and Nigeria.

: I. A. 2. a. 1 Malinke, Bambara, Dyula, Mandinka, Numu, Ligbi, Huela, Vai, Kono, Koranko, Khasonke

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Refugees fleeing the new communist government of China also often settled in squatter areas along the railway and this together with an increase in the British Army ’ s presence added to domestic travel demand in Hong Kong.

Napier was first to suggest establishment of a British presence on Hong Kong, then the site of a few small villages.

In addition to Hong Kong, the Company has a presence in Mainland China, the United States and the United Kingdom.

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From 1993 onwards the civilian Government Flying Service replaced Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force at Kai Tak, thus ending the RAF presence at the airport.

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Thus, by the late-1950s, in correlation with the Cold War context in Asia at the time, Rennie's Mill gradually became a Little Taiwan and a Bastion Against Communism, with the flag of the Republic of China flying, its own school system and practically off-limits to the Royal Hong Kong Police Force until 1962 when the Hong Kong Government decided to turn it into a resettlement estate due to its apprehension of the growing Kuomintang presence in the enclave.

Weihai was not developed in the way that Hong Kong, the other British colony in the region, was developed, because Shandong Province of which Weihaiwei was part of, was inside Germany's sphere of influence and had only been obtained as a counterbalance to the Russian presence at Port Arthur 130 kilometres across the sea in Manchuria.