Agadez (Air Tamajeq: ⴰⴶⴰⴷⴰⵣ, Agadaz), formerly spelled Agadès, is the fifth largest city in Niger, with a population of 110,497 based on the 2012 census...
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Agadez Mosque (French: Mosquée d'Agadez) is a prominent mosque in Agadez, Tchirozerine Department, Niger. It was made of clay and is the tallest mud-brick...
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The Agadez Cross (also Agadès Cross, Cross of Niger, French: Croix d’Agadez) is the most popular category of Saharan Berber jewelry made especially by...
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Sultanate of Agadez (also known as Tenere Sultanate of Aïr, Sultanate of Aïr, or Asben) was a Berber kingdom centered first in the city of Agadez (initially...
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Agadez Region is one of the seven regions of Niger. At 667,799 square kilometres (257,839 sq mi), it covers more than half of Niger's land area, and is...
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Bombino (musician) (category People from Agadez)
film Agadez, the Music and the Rebellion. Bombino was born in 1980 in Tidene, Niger, a Tuareg encampment about 80 kilometers northeast of Agadez. He is...
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parts of its territory became included in states such as the Sultanate of Agadez and the Songhai Empire. It was colonized by France during the Scramble for...
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rock band from Agadez, Niger. The band is currently signed to Sahel Sounds. The group has released three albums, No. 1 in 2018, Agadez in 2022, and 100%...
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Agadez, the Music and the Rebellion is a 2010 Nigerien documentary musical drama film directed by Ron Wyman and produced by Wyman and Van McLeod for Zero...
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Azalai (section Agadez–Bilma)
route. The other major West African salt caravan route, heading from around Agadez to Fachi and Bilma in Niger, is called Taghlamt (in Tamasheq, or Taglem...
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Mano Dayak International Airport (redirect from Agadez Airport)
DRZA) is an airport in Agadez in the Sahara desert in Niger. It is named after Mano Dayak, a Tuareg leader. Agadez is in the Agadez region in North-East...
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destination of one of the last Saharan caravan routes (the Azalai, from Agadez). Its population is mostly Kanuri, with smaller Toubou, Tuareg, and Hausa...
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Aïr Mountains (category Agadez Region)
Saharan matrix, these species have a high conservation value. The town of Agadez in the heart of the Tuareg country is the capital of Aïr. Much of the Tuareg...
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Arlit (category Agadez Region)
Arlit is an industrial town and capital of the Arlit Department of the Agadez Region of northern-central Niger, built between the Sahara Desert and the...
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attacks perpetrated by Islamist affiliates targeted the two Niger towns of Agadez and Arlit, the first being a military base the other a French-owned and...
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Niger Air Base 201 (redirect from Agadez drone base)
"Nigerien Air Base 201") is a Nigerien airbase near Agadez, Niger. The base is about 5 km southeast of Agadez. It is owned by the Nigerien military but was...
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The Historic Centre of Agadez is the historic district of the city of Agadez in Niger. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2013. Known as...
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Sadou Soloké is the Governor of the Agadez Region, Niger. Soloké has stated that the government supports reopening the Djado Plateau for gold mining, with...
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Libya, Agadez Region: 23°31'N. Southernmost point: Benin/Niger/Nigeria tripoint, Dosso Region: 11°42'N Easternmost point: border with Chad, Agadez Region:...
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Highway", a tarred road built in the 1970s for mining trucks, travels south to Agadez and Niamey. While the military on either side of the border have frequently...
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enforcement authorities.[citation needed] The initial migratory route spans from Agadez and Dirkou in Niger to the Sabha oasis in Libya, tracing an old caravan...
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January 2009 at the Wayback Machine. Le Sahel, Moutari Souley Onep, Tahoua/Agadez. 3 November 2008. Tahoua, Niger Page. Falling Rain Genomics, Inc. 1996–2004...
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Iwillimmidan: Tchin-Tabaraden, Abalagh, Teliya Azawagh (Niger). Kel Ayr: Assodé, Agadez, In Gal, Timia and Ifrwan. Kel Gres: Zinder and Tanut (Tanout) and south...
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List of cities in Niger (section Agadez Region)
15°27′08″N 6°16′42″E / 15.4522222°N 6.2783333°E / 15.4522222; 6.2783333 Agadez Agadez 110,497 16°58′26″N 7°59′27″E / 16.9738889°N 7.9908333°E / 16.9738889;...
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began attacking towns in the Aïr Mountains. With the aid of the Sultan of Agadez, Kaocen's forces placed the garrison under siege on 17 December 1916. They...
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later it was a tropical forest. A major dinosaur cemetery lies southeast of Agadez at Gadoufaoua; many fossils have been found there, having eroded out from...
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the Bobo-Dioulasso Grand Mosque. Agadez Grand Mosque, Niger (Fortress style) An ancestral multi-storey townhouse, Agadez, Niger (Hausa/Tubali) Larabanga...
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Azalai salt caravan from Agadez to Bilma, Niger...
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Ali Saibou (category People from Agadez)
Agadez in 1973, he attained the rank of captain. Saibou threw in his lot with Kountché in the coup of April 1974, and brought his troops from Agadez to...
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Abdallah ag Oumbadougou from Agadez and his band Takrist n'Akal, Hasso Akotey and Tidawt from Agadez, Group Bombino also from Agadez, Moussa ag Keyna's group...
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