Baol was one of the Wolof successor states carved from the collapsed Jolof Empire, alternating alliance and rivalry with neighboring Cayor and Sine for three centuries before French conquest.
Absorbed into French West Africa; colonization completed by 1895.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Baol — the shape you scrub through changes in 1549 · 1776 · 1862.
The standard scholarly history of the Senegambian region and its Wolof and Serer kingdoms (Cayor, Baol, Waalo, Sine, Saloum), in print from Cambridge University Press.