Kaarta

Kaarta, (Also known as '''Ka'arta or the Massassi State''') was a Bambara kingdom that arose after the fall of the Songhai Empire in what is today the western half of Mali and lasted until its destruction by Umar Tall in the 1850s.

Yélimané is a town and principal settlement of the commune of Guidimé in the Cercle of Yélimané in the Kayes Region, in south-western Mali, near the border of Mauritania.