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🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city

Chinguetti

Medieval to Early Modern (13th–19th c; library peak 17th–18th c) · Berber / Arab / Alkhalid

13th c scholar-ksar with 20-m square minaret and 5 manuscript libraries 1400+ codices.

✓VerifiedUNESCO

🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city

M'Zab Valley — Ibadite Fortified Ksar Valley

Medieval Ibadite (11th–14th c to present continuous) · Ibadite Berber (Mozabite) / Rustumid

M'Zab Valley is the intact 11th c Ibadite Pentapolis 480 m deep limestone hamada: 5 fortified ksour (Ghardaïa, Beni Isguen, El Atteuf, Melika, Bou Noura) each on hill with pyramidal mosque-minaret,…

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🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city

Ouadane (Wadan)

Medieval to Early Modern (12th–19th c) · Berber (Sanhaja) / Arab / Almoravid

Almoravid twin-ksar 12th c on Adrar scarp with 13-m minaret and caravan cisterns 300 m.

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🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city

Augila Oasis Complex

Garamantian to Islamic (5th c. BCE–present) · Garamantian / Berber / Islamic

Herodotean palm grove oasis with foggaras and ksour granaries (200 chambers).