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🇲🇷 Mauritania

🇲🇷 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.

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🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city

Tegdaoust (Aoudaghost)

Medieval Ghana Empire (Wagadu) / Almoravid (7th–17th c; peak 10th–13th c) · Soninke (Wagadu) / Sanhaja Berber

12 ha stone citadel identified as Ghana Empire's gold entrepôt Awdaghust with Tagant artisan quarters and central mosque.

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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...