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Verified places tagged “tegdaoust”

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🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city

Tegdaoust (Aoudaghost) East Kasbah

Medieval Ghana Empire / Almoravid (9th–13th c. CE) · Soninke (Ghana Empire) / Sanhaja

Artisan kasbah east of Aoudaghost with copper-bead workshops.

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🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city

Tegdaoust (Aoudaghost) West Ksar

Aoudaghost (c. 500–1400 CE; Berber–Ghanaian citadel) · Berber (Sanhaja) / Soninke Ghanaian conquest 1055

Berber ksar on Aoukar dune edge, Aoudaghost West preserves citadel, mosque and cavern granaries that stored caravan millet, described by al-Bakri and Ibn Hawqal; Ghana 1055 seizure...