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Yanfolila Cercle

cercle of Mali

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ631684 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yanfolila Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Sikasso Region of southern Mali. The administrative center (chef-lieu) is the town of Yanfolila.

The cercle is divided into 12 communes:

The town of Yanfolila lies within the rural commune of Wassoulou-Ballé.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Yanfolila Cercle” is cercle of Mali. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Yanfolila, Cercle and cercle, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 40-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1961-09-15. For this dossier, Yanfolila, Cercle and cercle is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “cercle of Mali” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q631684. Authority coordinates are 10.917, -8.083. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yanfolila Cercle” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.