Bakia | |
Settlement Type: | populated settlement |
Pushpin Map: | Guinea |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Guinea |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Guinea |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Boké Region |
Subdivision Type2: | Prefecture |
Subdivision Name2: | Boffa Prefecture |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Utc Offset: | +0 |
Coordinates: | 10.1°N -70°W |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Elevation M: | 55 |
Bakia is a populated settlement in the Boffa Prefecture, Boké Region, Guinea.
Emmanuel Gomez, senior, a Portuguese slave trader gained control of Bakia in the eighteenth century. His son, Emmanuel Gomez, junior succeeded him and his daughter Niara Bely married and became ruler of nearby Farenya.[2]