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===Colonialism===
The first known European visitor to the town was the Frenchman explorer [[René Caillié]], who passed through the area in June 1827 on his journey to [[Timbuktu]].<ref>{{cite book| last=Viguier | first=Pierre | year=2008 | title=Sur les Traces de René Caillié: Le Mali de 1828 Revisité | publisher=Quae | place=Versailles, France | isbn=978-2-7592-0271-3 | pages=70-71 | language=French }}</ref> In his book ''Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo'' published in 1830, he wrote:
<blockquote>Courouassa [Kouroussa] is a neat village, surrounded by a mud wall, from ten to twelve feet high and from eight to ten inches thick. It contains between four and five hundred inhabitants. ... the inhabitants are called Dhialonkés <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Yalunka people]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>, and are chiefly idolaters. They do not travel, but occupy themselves peaceably in the cultivation of their little fields, which are fertilised by the inundations of the river.<ref>{{cite book | last=Caillié | first=René | title=Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and across the Great Desert, to Morocco, performed in the years 1824-1828 (Volume 1) | publisher=Colburn & Bentley |location=London | year=1830 | pages=248-249 | url= http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gPMTAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA248 }}</ref></blockquote>
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