Sankandi
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Coordinates: 13 ° 17 ′ N , 15 ° 50 ′ W |
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| Region: | Lower River | |
| District: | Kiang West | |
| Residents: | 593 (2013)
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Sankandi is a town in the West African state of Gambia .
According to a calculation for the year 2013, about 593 inhabitants live there, the result of the last published census from 1993 was 528.
geography
Sankandi is located in the Lower River Region in the Kiang West District, directly on the South Bank Road , Gambia's most important highway about 150 kilometers east of Banjul . The small town, about ten meters above sea level, is about 5.5 kilometers north of Kalagi . Ten kilometers north of Sankandi is the Kiang West National Park , Gambia's largest nature reserve.
From here, a main road branches off from South Bank Road to the west, which leads to Keneba , among other places .
history
During the Soninke Marabout Wars , two British agents, Cecil Frederick Sitwell and a gentleman named Sylva, were murdered in Sankandi on June 14, 1900 in an attempt to mediate. The British fought back and Sankandi was razed to the ground. The insurgent Kabba Dumbaya was persecuted and killed, and the Soninke Marabout Wars were over.
The Sankandi Monument in front of the Anglican Church of St. Mary's Cathedral in the capital Banjul commemorates this "Battle of Sankandi" .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sankandi on bevoelkerungsstatistik.de (no longer available online, last accessed May 2013)
- ^ The Royal and noble families of britain
- ^ Ilona Hupe (text), Manfred Vachal (photos): Gambia. small vacation paradise in West Africa. 2nd updated edition. Hupe, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-932084-19-5 .
- ↑ “Walking Tour of Banjul” A History of Major Architectural Works ( Memento of March 24, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Bala Saho and Bill Roberts
