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Dia (Jà[1]) is a small town and seat of the commune of Diaka in the Cercle of Ténenkou in the Mopti Region of southern-central Mali.[2]

Dia
Town
Dia Location in Mali
Coordinates: 14°21′7″N 4°57′25″W
Country	Mali
Region	Mopti Region
Cercle	Ténenkou Cercle
Commune	Diaka
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)

Tomo Kan and also some Fulfulde are spoken in Dia.[1]

According to Levtzion, the Diakhanke "remember Dia in Massina as the town of their ancestor, Suware, a great marabout and a saint."[3]

Local surnames include Sangaré, Cissé, Sidibé.[1]

The three settlement mound complex, near the Inland Niger Delta, predates Djenne and Timbuktu.[4] Dia-Shoma, as the earliest settlement mound, dates to the 9th century BCE.[4] Dia-Mara dates to sixth century CE. The height of settlement at this complex is reached around the tenth century CE.[4]

References

Further reading

• Bedaux, Rogier; Schmidt, Annette; MacDonald, Kevin; Person, Alain; Polet, Jean; Sanogo, Kléna; Sidibé, Samuel (2001), "The Dia archaeological project: rescuing cultural heritage in the Inland Niger Delta (Mali)", Antiquity, 75 (290): 837–848.
• Bedaux, R.; Polet, J.; Sanogo, K.; et al., eds. (2005), Recherches archéologiques à Dia dans le Delta intérieur du Niger (Mali) : bilan des saisons de fouilles 1998-2003 (PDF) (in French), Leiden: CNWS Publications, ISBN 978-9057891076.
• McIntosh, R.J.; McIntosh, S.K. (1987), "Prospection archéologique aux alentours de Dia, Mali, 1986/1987" (PDF), Nyame Akuma (in French), 29: 42–45.
• Zeitoun, V.; Gatto, E.; Rougier, H.; Sidibé, S. (2004), "Dia Shoma (Mali), a medieval cemetery in the inner Niger delta", International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 14 (2): 112–125, doi:10.1002/oa.716.

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