Saloum shared Serer royal institutions with neighboring Sine while absorbing Wolof settlement, and its river-delta position made it a significant trade node before incorporation into French West Africa.
Annexed into French West Africa in 1867.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Kingdom of Saloum — the shape you scrub through changes in 1494 · 1776.
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.