POLITICIAN

Samori Ture

1830 - 1900

Photo of Samori Ture

Icon of person Samori Ture

Samory Toure (c. 1828 – June 2, 1900), also known as Samori Toure, Samory Touré, or Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure, was a Mandinka Muslim cleric, military strategist, and founder of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic empire that was stretched across present-day north and eastern Guinea, north-eastern Sierra Leone, southern Mali, northern Côte d'Ivoire and part of southern Burkina Faso. A deeply religious Muslim of the Maliki school of religious jurisprudence of Sunni Islam, he organized his empire and justified its expansion with Islamic principles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samori Ture has received more than 511,366 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Samori Ture is the 5,524th most popular politician (up from 5,755th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Guinea (down from 5th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Guinean Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 510k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Samori Ture ranks 5,524 out of 19,576. Before him are Omurtag of Bulgaria, Machaon, Ammi-Ditana, Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa, Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, and Jan Smuts. After him are Wolfram Sievers, Emperor Wen of Liu Song, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, Coloman of Galicia, Phạm Văn Đồng, and John Garang.

Most Popular Politicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Samori Ture ranks 21. Before him are Louise Michel, Étienne-Jules Marey, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg, Élisée Reclus, Jules de Goncourt, and Albert Bierstadt. After him are Frederic Leighton, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, Princess Elisabeth of Saxony, Adèle Hugo, Karl Goldmark, and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. Among people deceased in 1900, Samori Ture ranks 28. Before him are Francis, Duke of Teck, François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Birsa Munda, Kuroda Kiyotaka, and Armand David. After him are Princess Josephine of Baden, Joseph Bertrand, Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg, Zdeněk Fibich, and Stephen Crane.

Others Born in 1830

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1900

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Guinea

Among people born in Guinea, Samori Ture ranks 6 out of 49. Before him are Ahmed Sékou Touré (1922), Alpha Condé (1938), Sundiata Keita (1190), Lansana Conté (1934), and Robert Sarah (1945). After him are Mory Kanté (1950), Louis Lansana Beavogui (1923), Moussa Dadis Camara (1964), Nanfadima Magassouba (null), Solomana Kante (1922), and Djibril Tamsir Niane (1932).

Others born in Guinea

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among POLITICIANS In Guinea

Among politicians born in Guinea, Samori Ture ranks 5. Before him are Ahmed Sékou Touré (1922), Alpha Condé (1938), Sundiata Keita (1190), and Lansana Conté (1934). After him are Louis Lansana Beavogui (1923), Moussa Dadis Camara (1964), Nanfadima Magassouba (null), Mamady Doumbouya (1980), Cellou Dalein Diallo (1952), Jean-Marie Doré (1938), and Kabiné Komara (1950).

Guinean born Politicians

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous