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{{Infobox settlement

|name = N'Tentou
|other_name = Ténétou
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|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = {{flag|Mali}}
|subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Mauritania|Region]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[Sikasso Region]]
|subdivision_type2 =[[Cercles of Mali|Cercle]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Bougouni Cercle]]
|subdivision_type3 =[[Communes of Mali|Commune]]
|subdivision_name3 = [[Kouroulamini]]
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|footnotes = <ref>{{Cite web
| title = Ténétou, Mali - Geographical Names, map, geographic coordinates
| work = Geographical Names
| access-date = 2014-05-22
| url = http://www.geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-1595809&fid=3893&c=mali
}}</ref>
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'''N'Tentou''' or '''Ténétou''' is a town and seat of the [[Kouroulamini|commune of Kouroulamini]] in the [[Bougouni Cercle|Cercle of Bougouni]] in the [[Sikasso Region]] of southern [[Mali]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mali-reforme-telecom.mctmtl.com/previsions.pdf|title=Previsions de desserte des communes pour la periode de 2001-2005|publisher=Mali Reforme Telecom|access-date=February 12, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040829024117/http://mali-reforme-telecom.mctmtl.com/previsions.pdf|archive-date=August 29, 2004}}</ref> Historically one of the main towns of the [[Wassoulou]] region, N'Tentou was, until the late 19th century, surrounded by a large [[Tata (fortification)|tata]] made of mud, stones and [[karité]]. The outer wall was over {{convert|10|ft|m}} high and several kilometres long, with three even larger interior enclosures.<ref name = Klein>{{cite journal |last1=Klein |first1=Martin |title=ETHNIC PLURALISM AND HOMOGENEITY IN THE WESTERN SUDAN: SAALUM, SEGU, WASULU |journal=Mande Studies |date=1999 |volume=1}}</ref>
[[File:Pg069 Plan de Ténetou.jpg|thumb|left|Map of Tenetou, 1892]]

N'Tentou was a part of [[Samory Toure]]'s [[Wassoulou Empire]], supporting him even after the disastrous failure of the 1888 siege of [[Sikasso]], when much of the rest of the Wassoulou region rebelled. In the early 1890s, however, a [[French colonial empire|French colonial]] force was marching on the town. Toure's forces ordered the population to move east, but they refused. The Wassoulou army assaulted the town and massacred the inhabitants. When the French arrived, they found around 3000 corpses filling the town, and set up their headquarters in [[Bougouni]] instead of N'Tentou to avoid the smell.<ref name = Klein/>

==References==
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{{Communes of the Sikasso Region}}

[[Category:Populated places in Sikasso Region]]

{{Sikasso-geo-stub}}

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