Kantora District
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Kantora District is one of the four districts of the Upper River Division of the Gambia. it is the easternmost district of the country
At one point Kantora was a province of the Kabu Empire but it probably had different boundaries then.[1] The name derives from the Mandinka phrase "kana-ntoro," meaning "do not trouble me," referring to the disputes that Tiramakhan Traore's expedition struggled with there. They founded the village of Songkunda, meaning "place of agreement," to commemorate the re-establishment of peace.[2] The name of the area is first recorded from 1456.[3]
References
- ^ Clark, Andrew F. and Lucie Colvin Phillips. Historical Dictionary of Senegal, (Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1994) p. 172
- ^ Djibril Tamsir Niane, "Histoire des Mandingues de l'Ouest: le royaume du Gabou", p 21
- ^ Bühnen, Stephan. “Place Names as an Historical Source: An Introduction with Examples from Southern Senegambia and Germany.” History in Africa, vol. 19, 1992, pp. 45–101. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3171995. Accessed 27 Jul. 2022.
Coordinates: 13°25′N 13°55′W / 13.417°N 13.917°W
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