- The
Bainuk people (also
called Banyuk, Banun, Banyun, Bainouk, Bainunk, Banyum, Bagnoun, Banhum, Banyung, Ñuñ, Elomay, or Elunay) are an
ethnic group that...
- tinkuru, or provinces. He, or
perhaps his sons by his
Bainuk wife,
defeated Kikikor, the king of the
Bainuks and
captured Mampatim. His son or
grandson Sama...
- (Mandingo),
meaning king, chief."
Casamance is
mainly inhabited by the Jola and
Bainuk.
Significant minority po****tions
include the Balanta,
Mande and Fulani...
- of
Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.
Spellings are Bagnoun, Banhum,
Banyung and
Bainuk, Banyuk;
other names are
Elomay ~ Elunay; for the
Gunyaamolo variety Ñuñ...
- the 15th and 16th centuries. Many of the
inhabitants of the
realm were
Bainuk or
other native ethnicities, but it was
ruled by a
Mandinkized elite. The...
-
Portuguese arrival, as the
earliest sources mention the
Bainuk of Ezigichor. The term may come from the
Bainuk language words "asi nin core,"
meaning "places to...
- Sala Sane
established Kansala to
replace the old, less
centrally located Bainuk capital of Mamapatim. The city was also the site of the
sacred grove where...
- Tenemba. She fled the
Manding region to Mampatim, at the time the
center of a
Bainuk kingdom, and took
shelter in a cave.: 258, 271
Pregnant at the time of...
-
inhabitants of the area
along the
Gambia river include the Jola, the Balante, the
Bainuk, and the Manjak. The
Carthaginian explorer Hanno the
Navigator may have...
- the
Lower Casamance region in the 14th century, ****imilating the
previous Bainuk people and
their rice tradition. In
colonial times, the Jola
began to cultivate...
