# Mbissel

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**Mbissel** is a village in the west of [Sénégal](/source/S%C3%A9n%C3%A9gal). It is situated in the region of [Fatick](/source/Fatick). The population is mostly [Serer](/source/Serer_people).[1][2]

## History

Mbissel was the capital of the first [Guelowar](/source/Guelowar) king of [Sine](/source/Kingdom_of_Sine) - [Maad a Sinig Maysa Wali Jaxateh Manneh](/source/Maad_a_Sinig_Maysa_Wali_Jaxateh_Manneh) commonly known as Maysa Wali Jon. Maysa Wali made it his capital in the 14th century.[3]

The area just like the whole of Sine and [Saloum](/source/Kingdom_of_Saloum) has many historical [monuments](/source/Monuments).[4] The traditional site of the [tomb](/source/Tomb) of Maysa Wali is located in Mbissel.[5]

## See also

- [Kingdom of Sine](/source/Kingdom_of_Sine)
- [Kingdom of Saloum](/source/Kingdom_of_Saloum)
- [Serer people](/source/Serer_people)
- [Maat Sine Kumba Ndoffene Famak Joof](/source/Maat_Sine_Kumba_Ndoffene_Famak_Joof) (King of Sine 1853 - 1871)
- [Guelowar](/source/Guelowar)
- [Serer religion](/source/Serer_religion)
- *[Mossane](/source/Mossane)*, a 1996 film directed by [Safi Faye](/source/Safi_Faye)

## Notes

1. Dennis Charles Galvan. The state must be our master of fire: how peasants craft sustainable development in Senegal. University of California Press, 2004. ISBN 0-520-23591-6. p 54

1. ["Mbissel, the site of PEPAM"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120401192508/http://www.pepam.gouv.sn/acces.php?idloc=09122009). Archived from [the original](http://www.pepam.gouv.sn/acces.php?idloc=09122009) on 2012-04-01. Retrieved 2011-10-27.

1. M. Gueye, Les Guélowares et le Sine, Éthiopiques (revue), n° 28, p. 174-181, 1982.

1. Senegal, Ministry of Culture Department

1. Jean-Marc Gastellu. L'égalitarisme économique des Serer du Sénégal. p303. IRD Editions, 1981

## External links

- [Senegal culture](https://web.archive.org/web/20120207094223/http://www.culture.gouv.sn/article.php3?id_article=137)
- [Mbissel, the site of PEPAM](https://web.archive.org/web/20120401192508/http://www.pepam.gouv.sn/acces.php?idloc=09122009)

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