Mende Cathedral (Basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Privat de Mende) is a Roman Catholic cathedral and basilica minor, and also a national monument of France, located in the town of Mende.
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Although most often affiliated with the Mende, these societies are exist widely in the ethnic groups of Sierra Leone including in the Temne, the Kono, the Vai, and Bullom languages communities.
An Athenian fleet under Nicias and Nicostratus recovered Mende and blockaded Scione, which fell two years later (421 BC).
The Château de Florac is a castle, originally built in the 13th century and rebuilt in the 17th century, located in the French town of Florac, in Lozère, in south-central France.
The Château de Miral (13th century) is a historical building on the territory of the commune of Bédouès, Lozère département, in the Cevennes mountains of south-central France, about 10 km east of Florac going towards Le Pont-de-Montvert on road "D998".
According to a DNA analysis, his ancestries are, mainly, Temne and Mende people of Sierra Leone.
Loma and Mende also have their own unique alphabets but are studied less.
Dirk-Ulrich Mende (born 1957) is a German SPD politician and Lord Mayor (Oberbürgermeister) of the town of Celle in North Germany.
An account of the Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue (1692) elaborated by Dutch propaganda, very critical against Louis XIV, was thus sent and kept by the main characters of the Rouvière family, one of the most powerful groups of the village.
Sheena (1 episode, 2001) "The Treasure of Sienna Mende" TV episode (as Gregory D. Davis II) ...Niko
Located in Savery Library, they depict events on the ship, the U.S. Supreme Court trial, and the Mende people's return to Africa.
A Jesuit, he served as Vicar general of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mende.
Yale professor Josiah Gibbs, seeking anyone who spoke the Mende language to assist him by interpreting for the Amistad captives, went to New York Harbor and loudly counted to ten in Mende until someone who could understand him approached.
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James Covey (né Kai Nyangua; c. 1819 – ?) was the interpreter used in the Amistad slave ship case (40 U.S. (15 Pet.) 518 (1841)) who spoke Mende and possibly other African languages.
Jentink's duiker (Cephalophus jentinki), also known as gidi-gidi in Krio and kaikulowulei in Mende, is a forest-dwelling duiker found in the southern parts of Liberia, southwestern Côte d'Ivoire, and scattered enclaves in Sierra Leone.
John Oponjo Benjamin (born 29 November 1952 in Segbwema, Kailahun District) is a Sierra Leonean economist and politician of Mende descent.
In ancient Greece it was the site of the town of Mende, one of the many colonies in Chalkidiki founded by Chalcis, the main city on the island of Euboia.
But, in the 1940s, the British established the Protectorate Literacy Bureau in Bo which began teaching people to read and write Mende in a modified version of the Latin alphabet.
At the close of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century the Le Puy Mine was together with Poullaouen and Huelgoat in Finistère, Vialas in Lozère, Pontgibaud in Puy-de-Dôme and Pontpéan in Ille-et-Vilaine one of the most important lead mines in France.
The inhabitants of Masam are almost entirely from the Mende ethnic group, and the Mende language is by far the most widely spoken language in the town.
Turay devised a form of writing called 'Mende Abajada' (meaning 'Mende alphabet'), which was inspired in part by the Arabic abjad and in part by the Vai syllabary.
Adams, a former President of the United States and a then-U.S. Representative, was given the Bible as a gift in thanks for his representation of the Mende captives before the Supreme Court, who were freed when the Court ruled in their favor.
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The Mendi Bible is a Bible presented to John Quincy Adams in 1841 by a group of freed Mendi captives who had mutinied on the schooner La Amistad.
Interned in a concentration camp under the name of Rieucros in Mende with his mother during the Second World War, he developed a sense of belonging to this town, which has honored him with naming a school after him.
Archbishop Placide Louise Chapelle (August 28, 1842, Fraissinet-de-Lozère, Lozère, France – August 9, 1905, New Orleans, United States) was a French-American Roman Catholic archbishop.
Châteauneuf-de-Randon, commune in the Lozère department in southern France
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Arzenc-de-Randon, canton of France, located in the Lozère department, in the Languedoc-Roussillon region
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Rieutort-de-Randon, commune in the Lozère department in southern France
The principal line, part of the PLM Transcévenol, threads its way along the Gardon valley from Alès to Génolhac to Mende, this section of the line was approved in 1861 and opened 5 May 1870, and provided the link between Languedoc, Alès and Issoire and Paris.
The population of the town is primarily from the Sherbro and Mende ethnic group.
He is the son of one of the most famous women leaders in the history of Sierra Leone, Paramount Chief Madam Ella Koblo Gulama, an ethnic Mende from Moyamba District and Paramount Chief Bai Koblo Pathbana II, an ethnic Temne from Lunsar, Port Loko District.
Lansana Sheriff better known as Steady Bongo was born in Daru, a rural town in Kailahun District in Eastern Sierra Leone to an ethnic Mandingo father and a Mende mother.
The predominant ethnci group in the village are the Mende, and the Mende language is the most widely spoken language in the village.
Thierry Brusseau (born July 22, 1964 in Marvejols, Lozère) was a track and field athlete from France, who mainly competed in the men's 3.000 metres steeplechase during his career.
He attended the Mende Mission of the American Missionary Association, a school founded by American missionaries who accompanied the captives from the Amistad back to Africa.
Tiwai Island (Mende for 'Big Island') is a wildlife sanctuary and tourist site in Sierra Leone.