🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Ouadane — Chinguetti-Linked Caravan Ksar
Medieval Almoravid foundation 1147 CE, gold-salt era · Berber Almoravid → Mali gold trade
Ouadane 1147 Almoravid ksar, caravan to Chinguetti 100 km.
CategoriesKsars
Ksars
Every place in the atlas labelled ksars.
- Places
- 4
- Countries
- 2
- World Heritage
- 0
Notable ksars
Verified
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient village
Chenini — Berber Hilltop Ksar
Medieval Berber to Modern (12th c–present) · Berber (Cheninia) / Arab
Verified
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient village
Ksar Ouled Soltane — Fortified Granary
Early Modern Berber (1699–1900) · Berber (Cherkaoui) / Arab
Accepted
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Ouadane — Chinguetti-Linked Caravan Ksar
Medieval Almoravid foundation 1147 CE, gold-salt era · Berber Almoravid → Mali gold trade
Verified
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Walata — Medieval Ksar and Manuscript City
Ghana to Mali to Songhai medieval (11th c. CE foundation; 14th c. peak Ibn Battuta 1352) · Soninke → Berber → Mali Empire caravan scholars