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  1. famousfix.com

    Portendick is an abandoned coastal city in western Mauritania. It was located in the Ouad Naga Department of Trarza Region. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Portendick had a significant port for the gum arabic trade; however, by the 19th century trade from the port became unsustainable due to the area's arid, desert climate and lack of drinking water.
  2. en.wikipedia.org

    Trade routes of the Western Sahara c. 1000-1500. Goldfields are indicated by light brown shading: Bambuk, Bure, Lobi, and Akan. 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 ...
  3. commons.wikimedia.org

    Category: Formerly populated places in Mauritania. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Countries of Africa: Mauritania. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. P. Portendick (3 F) T. Tinigui (2 F)
  4. britannica.com

    7 days agoMauritania, country on the Atlantic coast of Africa.Mauritania forms a geographic and cultural bridge between the North African Maghrib (a region that also includes Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) and the westernmost portion of sub-Saharan Africa.Culturally, it forms a transitional zone between the Arab-Amazigh (Berber) populations of North Africa and the African peoples in the region to the ...
  5. famousfix.com

    The list "Former populated places in Africa" has been viewed 0 times. Login. vertical_align_top. View: Images: S · M. ... Former populated places in Mauritania 5 T Former populated places in Morocco 1 L, 6 T Former populated places in Tunisia 2 L, 34 T Former ...
  6. theafricanhistory.com

    Archeologists have discovered "large stone villages" in the Tichitt-Walata Region of Mauritania dating from 1100 BC. ... The area was populated with around 500 stone settlements in the former Sahara savannah. In addition to cattle herding (e.g., cattle, sheep, goats), its inhabitants hunted, fished, gathered wild grain and grew millet from ...
  7. en.wikipedia.org

    Azougui (or Azuggi, Arabic: آزوكي) was a town in north-western Mauritania, lying on the Adrar Plateau, north-west of Atar.In the eleventh century it was the first capital of the Almoravid dynasty, [1] who conquered a territory stretching from the Ghana Empire to Morocco and the Iberian Peninsula.. The chronicler al-Bakri (c. 1040 -1094) claims a fortress "surrounded by 20,000 palms" was ...

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