Wolof or Wollof may refer to:
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Wolof people
The Wolof people () are a Niger-Congo peoples, Niger-Congo ethnic group native to the Senegambia, Senegambia region of West Africa. Senegambia is today split between western Senegal, northwestern the Gambia, Gambia and coastal Mauritania; the Wo ...
, an ethnic group found in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania
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Wolof language
Wolof ( ; , ) is a Niger–Congo language spoken by the Wolof people in much of the West African subregion of Senegambia that is split between the countries of Senegal, The Gambia and Mauritania. Like the neighbouring languages Serer and Fula, ...
, a language spoken in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania
* The Wolof or
Jolof Empire
The Jolof Empire (), also known as Great Jolof or the Wolof Empire, was a Wolof state in modern-day Senegal, that ruled portions of Mauritania and Gambia from the mid-14th centuryFage, J. D.; Oliver, Roland; "The Cambridge History of Africa." Vo ...
, a medieval West African successor of the Mali Empire from the 14th to 16th centuries in present-day Senegal
* The Wolof or
Jolof Kingdom, a rump survival of the earlier empire in the same area from the 16th to the 19th centuries
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