Editing Thiès region (section)

==History==
{{Main|Timeline of Serer history}}
The Thiès Region has always been occupied by the [[Serer people]] since [[States headed by ancient Serer Lamanes|the ancient Serers]] and [[Timeline of Serer history|their ancestors]]. However, in the pre-colonial period, more so around the 16th century, the [[Wolof people|Wolof]] immigrants [[:Category:Ethnic groups in Senegal|among others]] have settled in.<ref name="Klein">Klein, Martin A., "Islam and Imperialism in Senegal Sine-Saloum, 1847–1914", p. 7, [[Edinburgh University Press]] (1968), {{ISBN|0-85224-029-5}}</ref><ref name="Diange">Diange, Pathé. "Les Royaumes Sérères", [[Présence Africaine]]. No.54 (1965) p-p 142-72</ref><ref name="Ba">Ba, Abdou Bouri, "Essai sur l’histoire du Saloum et du Rip", Avant-propos par Charles Becker et Victor Martin. Publié dans le Bulletin de l’[[Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire]] (IFAN), pp 10-13</ref> Like the [[Fatick Region]], the entire Thiès Region is strongly Serer and one of the most important of [[:Category:Serer country|Serer country]].<ref name="Klein"/><ref name="Diange"/><ref name="Ba"/><ref>Encyclopædia Britannica, inc, "The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 29", ed : 13, [[Encyclopædia Britannica]], 2003, p 855-6, {{ISBN|0-85229-961-3}}</ref> It is also where many of the [[:Category:Serer holy places|Serer sacred]] and [[Serer ancient history|historical sites are found]]. The area is well represented by the [[Cangin languages|Cangin]], a sub-group of the Serers, who had a fierce reputation for protecting their country from outsiders in precolonial times as well as during the colonial-era (see [[Timeline of Serer history]] and [[Serer history (medieval era to present)|Serer medieval history]]).

Geographically, the region partially overlaps with the precolonial Kingdoms of [[Cayor]] and [[Baol]].<ref>{{in lang|fr}} Djibril Diop, "Décentralisation et gouvernance locale au Sénégal". ''Quelle pertinence pour le développement local ?'', Paris, L'Harmattan, 2006, p. 69 {{ISBN|2-296-00862-3}}</ref> The Kingdom of Baol was ruled by the [[Joof family]] for several centuries until [[Wiktionary:circa|c]] 1549. During the colonial-era, its development was supported by the railway line - [[Dakar-Saint-Louis railway|the Dakar-Saint-Louis railway]] in the late nineteenth century, and then with the [[Dakar–Niger Railway|Dakar-Niger railway]]. Thus Administratively, it is one of the oldest in the country.