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Saint-Louis

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Saint-Lou·is  (s-l-)
A city of northwest Senegal at the mouth of the Senegal River. The oldest French colonial settlement in Africa, it was founded as a trading base c. 1658. It was the capital of French West Africa from 1895 to 1902 and the capital of Senegal until 1958. Population: 154,000.


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