Massina
Coordinates: 14 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ N , 4 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W.
The Massina (also Macina ) is about 40,000 square kilometers large flood lowlands with inland delta of the Niger in Mali .
location
In it are the towns of Djenne , which at Bani - tributary is the Niger, and Mopti . Timbuktu joins northeast .
history
After the warlike jihad of Ahmad b. Mohammad 1818 established around 1820 to 1862 in Hamdullahi the seat of a Fulbe ruler who proclaimed himself Amīr al-Mu'minīn (" ruler of the believers ").