 the kingdom of saloum (serer language: saluum or saalum) was a serer/wolof kingdom in present-day senegal. its kings may have been of mandinka/kaabu origin. the capital of saloum was the city of kahone. it was a sister kingdom of sine. their history, geography and culture were intricately linked and it was common to refer to them as the sine-saloum. ==history==  thumb|left|carte des peuplades du sÃ©nÃ©gal de l'abbÃ© boilat (1853): an ethnic map of senegal at the time of french colonialism. the pre-colonial states of baol, sine and saloum are arrayed along the southwest coast, with the inland areas marked "peuple sÃ©rÃ¨re". 
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