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TUKULOR (TUCULERS)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 365 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TUKULOR (TUCULERS) , the name, by some said to be the See also:French tout-couleur, for the See also:negro See also:half-castes of See also:Senegal, who are principally of See also:Fula-See also:Wolof descent. By others the word is identified with Tacurol, an old name of the See also:country, which took the See also:form of Tacurores in the Portuguese writers of the 16th See also:century. The Tukulor are settled chiefly in the Damga, Futa, See also:Toro and Dimar districts of Senegal, and are remarkable for their fanaticism as Mahommedans. An intelligent, energetic and fierce See also:people, they offered strenuous opposition to the See also:conquest of their country by the French in the latter half of the 19th century.

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