The oldest of the Mossi kingdoms, traditionally founded circa 1100 by Bissa-Mossi warrior-settlers and regarded by Mossi oral tradition as the root from which the later kingdoms of Ouagadougou and Yatenga split off.
Survived as a distinct Mossi kingdom (never subsumed into the larger Ouagadougou/Wagadugu confederation) through the pre-colonial era; lost sovereignty to French conquest in 1896 with the other Mossi states, but its monarchy persists today as a traditional, non-sovereign institution within Burkina Faso.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Kingdom of Tenkodogo — the shape you scrub through changes in 1100 · 1400 · 1590 · 1821.
The standard English-language ethnography/history of the Mossi political system, including the Tenkodogo, Ouagadougou and Yatenga kingdoms (Open Library-verified).
French-language scholarly history specifically of the Mossi kingdoms' origins and political institutions, including Tenkodogo's founding traditions (Open Library-verified).