Dia, Mali

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Dia
Town
Dia Location in Mali
Coordinates: 14°21′7″N 4°57′25″W / 14.35194°N 4.95694°WCoordinates: 14°21′7″N 4°57′25″W / 14.35194°N 4.95694°W
Country	Mali
Region	Mopti Region
Cercle	Ténenkou Cercle
Commune	Diaka
Time zone	GMT (UTC+0)

Dia is a small town and seat of the commune of Diaka in the Cercle of Ténenkou in the Mopti Region of southern-central Mali.^[2]

According to Levtzion, the Diakhanke "remember Dia in Massina as the town of their ancestor, Suware, a great marabout and a saint."^[3]

References

1. Soundjata ou l'épopée mandingue
2. Communes de la Région de Mopti (PDF) (in French), Ministère de l’administration territoriale et des collectivités locales, République du Mali.
3. Levtzion, Nehemia (1973). Ancient Ghana and Mali. New York: Methuen & Co Ltd. p. 168. ISBN 0841904316.

Further reading

• Bedaux, Rogier; Schmidt, Annette; MacDonald, Kevin; Person, Alain; Polet, Jean; Sanogo, Kléna; Sidibé, Samuel (2001), "The Dia archaeological project: rescuing cultural heritage in the Inland Niger Delta (Mali)", Antiquity, 75 (290): 837–848.
• Bedaux, R.; Polet, J.; Sanogo, K.; et al., eds. (2005), Recherches archéologiques à Dia dans le Delta intérieur du Niger (Mali) : bilan des saisons de fouilles 1998-2003 (PDF) (in French), Leiden: CNWS Publications, ISBN 978-9057891076.
• McIntosh, R.J.; McIntosh, S.K. (1987), "Prospection archéologique aux alentours de Dia, Mali, 1986/1987" (PDF), Nyame Akuma (in French), 29: 42–45.
• Zeitoun, V.; Gatto, E.; Rougier, H.; Sidibé, S. (2004), "Dia Shoma (Mali), a medieval cemetery in the inner Niger delta", International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 14 (2): 112–125, doi:10.1002/oa.716.