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By the 10th century, Ghana was an immensely rich and prosperous empire, controlling an area the size of Texas, stretching across Senegal, Mali, and Mauritania. When visiting the capital city of Kumbi Saleh in 950 AD, Arab traveler Ibn Hawqal described the Ghanaian ruler as the "richest king in the world because of his gold."
The ancient ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata in Mauritania were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1996. [1]Ouadane and Chinguetti are located in the Adrar Region, Tichitt in the Tagant Region and Oualata in the Hodh Ech Chargui Region.
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.
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 )
Oualata or Walata (Arabic: ولاتة) (also Biru in 17th century chronicles) [2] is a small oasis town in southeast Mauritania, located at the eastern end of the Aoukar basin. Oualata was important as a caravan city in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries as the southern terminus of a trans-Saharan trade route and now it is a World Heritage ...
During the Islamic conquests, they made incursions into Mauritania and were present in the region by the end of the 7th century. [1] Many Berber tribes in Mauritania fled the arrival of the Arabs to the Gao region in Mali. [2] The European colonial powers of the 19th century had little interest in Mauritania. The French Republic was mostly ...
Various opinions exist as to the age of the Mande languages. Valentin Vydrin concluded that "the Mande homeland at the second half of the 4th millennium BC was located in Southern Sahara, somewhere to the North of 16° or even 18° of Northern latitude and between 3° and 12° of Western longitude.".
Aoudaghost also transliterated as Awadaghust, Awdughast, Awdaghusht, Awdaghost, and Awdhaghurst (Arabic: أودغست) is a former Berber town in Hodh El Gharbi, Mauritania. [1] It was an important oasis town at the southern end of a trans-Saharan caravan route that is mentioned in a number of early Arabic manuscripts.