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Line 4: ==Manden== The Mali Empire grew out of an area referred to by its contemporary inhabitants as Manden.[http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.manden.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D2&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=3&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DFarin,%2BMali%2BEmpire%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D] Manden, named for its inhabitants the Mandinka (initially Manden’ka with “ka” meaning people of),[http://www.fakoli.net/nko/tutorial/intro.html] comprised most of present-day northern [[Guinea]] and southern [[Mali]]. The empire was originally established as a federation of Mandinka tribes called the Manden Kurufa (literally Manden Federation), but it later became an empire ruling some 50 million people of nearly every ethnic group imaginable in West Africa. H ==Etymology==

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