Koundian is a small town and commune in the Cercle of Bafoulabé in the Kayes Region of south-western Mali. In the 2009 census the commune had a population of 14,075.

Koundian
Commune and town
Koundian Location in Mali
Coordinates: 13°09′35″N 10°40′50″W
Country	Mali
Region	Kayes Region
Cercle	Bafoulabé Cercle
Population  (2009 census)[1]
• Total	14,075
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)

The Toucouleur leader El Hadj Umar Tall built a fort (tata) near the village in 1857.[2][3] The fort was captured by French troops led by Louis Archinard in 1889.[4][5]

References

Sources

• Delafosse, Maurice (1912), Haut-Sénégal-Niger: Le Pays, les Peuples, les Langues; l'Histoire; les Civilizations. Volume 2: L'Histoire (in French), Paris: Émile Larose.
• Gatelet, Auguste Louis Charles (1901), Histoire de la conquête du Soudan français (1878-1899) (in French), Paris: Berger-Levrault.
• Meillassoux, C. (1966), "Plans d'anciennes fortifications (Tata) en pays Malinké", Journal de la Société des Africanistes (in French), 36 (1): 29–44, doi:10.3406/jafr.1966.1403. Page 42 contains a plan of the village showing the fort.

External links

• Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune rurale de Koundian 2007-2009 (PDF) (in French), Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali, 2006, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-06-11, retrieved 2012-03-17.

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