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Soninke people (Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana) Soninke Wangara ( Mali , Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana ) (Extinct: sub-group of the Soninke) Tura people ( Côte d'Ivoire )
After its decline in Mauritania, the Tichitt Tradition spread to the Middle Niger region of Mali (e.g., at Méma, Macina, Dia Shoma, and Jenne Jeno), where it developed into and persisted as Faïta Facies ceramics between 1300 BCE and 400 BCE among rammed earth architecture and iron metallurgy (which developed after 900 BCE). [17]
Mauritania thus became part of French West Africa in 1904, but colonial control was mostly limited to the coast and the Saharan trade routes, and there were territories nominally within French West Africa which were not reached by European control as late as 1955. In 1960, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania became Independent of France.
Ouadane or Wādān (Arabic: وادان) is a small town in the desert region of central Mauritania, situated on the southern edge of the Adrar Plateau, 93 km northeast of Chinguetti. The town was a staging post in the trans-Saharan trade and for caravans transporting slabs of salt from the mines at Idjil.
The Beidane, who are of mixed Arab and Berber ancestry, represent 30% of Mauritania's population. [1] [2] The language of the Beidane is Hassaniya Arabic. Al-Bidān (which literally translates to "Land of the whites") is an endonym used within Mauritania and Western Sahara by the Bidān people to refer to themselves. The name used by outsiders ...
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The Kunta family (the Awlad Sidi al-Wafi) is among the best-known examples of a lineage of Islamic scholarship with widespread influence throughout Mauritania, Senegambia, [1] and other parts of the Western Sudan, and are closely associated with the expansion of Qadiriyya.
Choum (Arabic: شوم) is a town in northern Mauritania, lying in the Adrar Region close to the border with Western Sahara. In the year 2000, Choum had a population of 2,735. [ 1 ]