Editing Yamoussoukro (section)

==History==
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===Prehistory===
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Stone tools found in the country from hundreds of thousands of years ago show that the area around Yamoussoukro has been occupied since ancient times. Due to the [[desertification]] of the [[Sahara]], many moved south to avoid the harsh conditions.

===Colonial period===
Queen Yamoussou, the niece of Kouassi N'Go, ran the city of ''N'Gokro'' in 1929 at the time of [[French colonization]]. The village of N'Gokro was renamed Yamoussoukro, the suffix ''Kro'' meaning town in [[Baoulé language|Baoule]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Cote d'Ivoire |date=2023-11-14 |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/cote-divoire/ |work=The World Factbook |access-date=2023-11-22 |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency |language=en}}</ref>

Diplomatic and commercial relations were then established, but in 1909, on the orders of the Chief of Djamlabo, the Akoué revolted against the administration. Bonzi station, {{convert|7|km|mi}} from Yamoussoukro on the [[Bouaflé]] road, was set on fire, and the French administrator, Simon Maurice, was spared only by the intervention of Kouassi N'Go.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Braimah |first=Ayodale |date=2019-01-28 |title=Yamoussoukro, Cote d’Ivoire (1909- ) • |url=https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/yamoussoukro-cote-divoire-1909/ |access-date=2023-11-22 |language=en-US}}</ref>

As the situation got worse, Maurice, judging that Bonzi had become safe, decided to transfer the French military station to Yamoussoukro, where the French Administration built a pyramid to the memory of Kouassi N'Go, Chief of the Akoué, who was assassinated in 1910 by Akoué rebels, accusing him of being too close to the French.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Coates|first1=Carrol F.|title=A Fictive History of Côte d'Ivoire: Kourouma and "Fouphouai"|journal=Research in African Literatures|date=1 January 2007|volume=38|issue=2|pages=124–139|jstor=4618379|doi=10.2979/RAL.2007.38.2.124|s2cid=161600527 }}</ref>

In 1919, the civil station of Yamoussoukro was removed. [[Félix Houphouët-Boigny]] became the leader of the village in 1939. A long period passed wherein Yamoussoukro, still a small agricultural town, remained in the shadows. This continued until after the Second World War, which saw the creation of the [[African Agricultural Union]], as well as the first conferences of its chief. However, it was only with independence that Yamoussoukro finally started to rise.<ref name="Braimah">{{cite web|last1=Braimah|first1=Ayodale|title=Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire (1909– )|url=http://www.blackpast.org/gah/yamoussoukro-cote-d-ivoire-1983|website=BlackPast.org|access-date=8 September 2017|archive-date=14 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180914085310/http://www.blackpast.org/gah/yamoussoukro-cote-d-ivoire-1983|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1950, the village comprised 500 inhabitants.<ref>Cyril K. Daddieh, ''Historical Dictionary of Cote d'Ivoire (The Ivory Coast)'', Rowman & Littlefield, USA, 2016, p. 490</ref>

===Since independence===
After 1964, the President [[Félix Houphouët-Boigny]] made ambitious plans and started to build. One day in 1965, later called the Great Lesson of Yamoussoukro, he visited the plantations with the leaders of the county, inviting them to transpose to their own villages the efforts and agricultural achievements of the region. On 21 July 1977, Houphouët offered his plantations to the State.{{cn|date=March 2024}}

In March 1983, President Houphouët-Boigny made Yamoussoukro the political and administrative capital of [[Ivory Coast]], as the city was his birthplace.<ref>Roman Adrian Cybriwsky, ''Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture'', ABC-CLIO, USA, 2013, p. 339</ref> This marked the fourth movement of the country's capital city in a century. Ivory Coast's previous capital cities were [[Grand-Bassam]] (1893), [[Bingerville]] (1900), and Abidjan (1933). Most economic activity still takes place in Abidjan, and it is officially designated as the "economic capital" of the country.

Yamoussoukro is the seat of [[Yamoussoukro Department]] and the neighbouring [[Bélier Region]], but Yamoussoukro itself is not part of the region.