Kantora District

Kantora District is one of the four districts of the Upper River Division of the Gambia. it is the easternmost district of the country

Districts of Upper River Division

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]

References
  1. Clark, Andrew F. and Lucie Colvin Phillips. Historical Dictionary of Senegal, (Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1994) p. 172
  2. Djibril Tamsir Niane, "Histoire des Mandingues de l'Ouest: le royaume du Gabou", p 21

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