Thilogne (Thilouki in

Pulaar Pulaar (in Latin script, Latin: , in Ajami script, Ajami: ), often referred to as Pulaar du Nord, is dialect of the Fula language spoken primarily as a first language by the Fula people, Fula and Toucouleur peoples in the Senegal River valley ar ...

) is a town in northeast

Senegal Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. It borders Mauritania to Mauritania–Senegal border, the north, Mali to Mali–Senegal border, the east, Guinea t ...

with the status of a commune. It lies in the

Matam Department Matam department is one of the 46 departments of Senegal, one of the three in the Matam region in the north-east of the country. Departments The department has four communes: Matam, Senegal, Matam, Ouro Sogui, Ourossogui, Thilogne and Nguidjilone ...

of Matam Region, from

Kaédi Kaédi () is the largest city and administrative center of the Gorgol Region of Southern Mauritania, located on the Mauritania–Senegal border, border with Senegal. It is approximately 435 km from Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott. Overview Th ...

, Mauretania and connected to

Dakar Dakar ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Senegal, largest city of Senegal. The Departments of Senegal, department of Dakar has a population of 1,278,469, and the population of the Dakar metropolitan area was at 4.0 mill ...

via the N2 road. In 2023 Thilogne had a population of 15,044. There are twelve mosques, two elementary schools, a middle school, and a ''lycée'' (high school). There is a dispensary and a small market. Thilogne is twinned with

Trappes Trappes () is a Communes of France, commune in the Yvelines departments of France, department, Île-de-France Regions of France, region, Northern France. It is a banlieue located in the western outer suburbs of Paris, from the Kilometre zero, c ...

in France.

History

Thilogne is part of the

Futa Tooro Futa Toro ( Wolof and , , ; ), often simply the Futa, is a semidesert region around the middle run of the Senegal River. This region, along the border of Senegal and Mauritania, is historically significant as the center of several Fulani states, ...

region of northwestern Senegal. From the 9th to the 13th centuries it was part of the state of

Takrur Takrur, Tekrur or Tekrour ( 500 – c. 1456) was a state based in the Senegal River in modern day Senegal which was at its height in the 11th and 12th centuries, roughly parallel to the Ghana Empire. It lasted in some form into the 18th ...

and by the

Empire of Great Fulo The Empire of Great Fulo (; ), also known as the Denanke Kingdom or Denianke Kingdom, was a Pulaar kingdom of Senegal, which dominated the Futa Toro region from the early 16th century to 1776. Tenguella, a Fula chief in Futa Toro, led an emig ...

from AD 1490 to 1776. Abdul Kader Kane, first

Almamy Almami (; Also: Almamy, Almaami) was the regnal name of Tukulor monarchs from the eighteenth century through the first half of the twentieth century. It is derived from the Arabic Al-Imam, meaning "the leader", and it has since been claimed as th ...

of the

Imamate of Futa Toro The Imamate of Futa Toro (; ; ) was a West African theocratic monarchy of the Fula-speaking people ('' Fulɓe'' and Toucouleurs) in the middle valley of the Senegal River, in the region known as Futa Toro. Following the trend of jihads in the ...

, made Thilogne his capital.Institut Fondamental de l'Afrique Noire. Musée Historique de Gorée Exhibit (August 2024). During the 1960s and 1970s, Thilogne was part of Matam Department, Fleuve Region. The ''Thilogne Association Développement'' (Thilogne Development Association) was established in 1995; it organizes a festival every two years and has helped to rehabilitate and construct schools and a dispensary. Notable people from Thilogne include

Seydou Barry Seydou Barry (1943 – 2007) was a Senegalese painter. He is part of the artistic movement called the Dakar School (), affiliated with ''Négritude ''Négritude'' (from French "nègre" and "-itude" to denote a condition that can be translated ...

(1943–2007).

References

Populated places in Matam region Communes of Senegal {{Senegal-geo-stub