Country Mali Cercle Koutiala Cercle Elevation 312 m (1,024 ft) Founded 1957 | Region Sikasso Region Commune Nampé Time zone GMT (UTC+0) Lok sabha constituency Cuttack district | |
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Franco mercuri baila baramba
Baramba is a village and administrative centre (chef-lieu) of the commune of Nampé in the Cercle of Koutiala in the Sikasso Region of southern Mali. The village is 25 km north of Koutiala.
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- Franco mercuri baila baramba
- Map of Badamba Odisha 754031
- Nastup i o gojko kru ka na fipo 2011 baramba
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Map of Badamba, Odisha 754031
The French explorer René Caillié stopped at Baramba on 18 February 1828 on his journey to Timbuktu. He was travelling with a caravan transporting kola nuts to Djenné. In his book Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo published in 1830, he refers to the village as Bamba. Caillié wrote:
After proceeding four miles we halted at the village of Bamba, which is shaded by boababs. At the market I observed that women wore glass rings in the nose; and some had these ornaments made of gold or copper. This village contains three to four hundred inhabitants.
The route of Caillié's caravan passed a few kilometers to the west of what is now the town of Koutiala. The town did not exist at the time: it was founded at the end of the 19th century by the French army after the conquest.