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Bondoukou (Bonduku) is one of the fifty-eight departments of Côte d'Ivoire, located in the Zanzan Region. Its central town, also named Bondoukou, is the regional capital. Originally a Dyula trading center, the capital was conquered by the Abron, an Akan people, in the early seventeenth century; it soon became the economic hub of the Gyaaman kingdom. The city fell briefly to Samori in 1895 before being incorporated into French West Africa in 1897.
Today the city has a population of roughly 45,000 people.
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- Muhammad, Akbar. The International Journal of African Historical Studies 10.2 (1977): 242-258.
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Coordinates: 8°02′24″N 2°48′06″W / 8.04, -2.80167
