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Cote D'Ivoire - English
URL: http://www.africanet.com/africanet/country/cote-di/

Before the early 19th century there were few contacts between the people of the Ivory Coast and Europe, however in the 1840's the French constructed a plan to set up a commercial monopoly in the region and a number of treaties were signed with the local chiefs.

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An Introduction to Côte d'Ivoire - English
URL: http://www.geographia.com/ivory-coast/

The Côte d'Ivoire lies too far west to have been significant in the 17th and 18th century development of the Guinea coast gold, and slave trade. Although a French protectorate was established over the coastal zone in 1842, the interior remained free from European control until the very end of the century.

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