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Upper Senegal and Niger
Upper Senegal and Niger
was a
colony
in
French West Africa
created in 1904 from
Senegambia and Niger
.
Niger
became a separate military district in 1911 and a separate colony in 1922,
Upper Volta
was split off in 1919, and the remainder reorganized as
French Sudan
(present-day
Mali
) in 1920. The capital was
Bamako
.
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