Chinguetti (/ʃɪŋˈɡɛti/ shing-GHET-ee; Arabic: شنقيط, romanized: Šinqīṭ) is a ksar and a medieval trading center in northern Mauritania, located on the...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Chinguetti Mosque (Arabic: مسجد شنقيط, romanized: Masjid Shinqīṭ) is a mosque in Chinguetti, Adrar Region, Mauritania. It...

The Chinguetti oilfield is an oil field located off the Mauritanian coast in 800 m water depth. It was discovered by the Australian firm Woodside Petroleum...

The Chinguetti meteorite is a find reputed to come from a large unconfirmed 'iron mountain' in Africa. The existence of a huge stony-iron mesosiderite...

Chinguetti is a department of the Adrar Region in Mauritania. The capital lies at Chinguetti, an ex-Middle Ages center for trade which is considered to...

Abdallah al-Chinguetti, was a Mauritanian jihadist and commander of Katiba Al Furqan of the Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Chinguetti was born in 1981...

Tsabit, Tekorareen, and others. The Saadians repeatedly tried to control Chinguetti, and the most prominent attempts were made during the reign of Sultan...

historically part of the pre-modern Bilad Chinguetti (Arabic: بلاد شنقيط, romanized: Bilād Šinqīṭ), the Land of Chinguetti, a religious center in contemporary...

Adrar Plateau. The capital is Atar. Other major towns include Choum, Chinguetti and Ouadane. The region borders Western Sahara and the Mauritanian region...

commonly known to Arab geographers as Bilad Chinqit, "the land of the Chinguetti". The term "Mauritanie occidentale" was officially used in a ministerial...

above sea level just east of Atar near the Amojjar Pass on the track to Chinguetti, then loses elevation and becomes subsumed by dunes to the south and east...

Hassaniya Arabic was the language spoken in the pre-modern region around Chinguetti. The language has completely replaced the Berber languages that were originally...

of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata in Mauritania were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1996. Ouadane and Chinguetti are located...

cities. Chinguetti is 86 km from Atar, 90 km and 128 km from Ouadane, along the plateau track. Regarded as the 7th Holy City of Islam, Chinguetti was a...

cratériformes ou circulaires) in the area, Er Richât, Aouelloul (south of Chinguetti), Temimichat-Ghallaman and Tenoumer. It was initially considered to be...

al-Shami. al-Shinqiti, related to or from the city of Chinguetti or Bilād Šinqīṭ (Bilad Chinguetti, modern-day Mauritania) e.g. Ahmad ibn al-Amin al-Shinqiti...

was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996 together with Ouadane, Chinguetti and Tichitt. Oualata Decorative Entrance Oualata Mosque Oualata Decorative...

This is the list of candidates for the 2023 Mauritanian parliamentary election, in the electoral districts of the wilaya of Adrar. 25 parties were legally...

Ouardane (Mauritania), In Salah (Algeria), Taoudenni (Mali), Iférouane, Chinguetti (Mauritania), Kufra, and Murzuk (Libya)." Trade didn't flourish however...

Island (Papua New Guinea), and at Patwar (India) in 1935. The legendary Chinguetti meteorite is also supposed to be a mesosiderite. The asteroid 16 Psyche...

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situated on the southern edge of the Adrar Plateau, 93 km northeast of Chinguetti. The town was a staging post in the trans-Saharan trade and for caravans...

Woodside had agreed to invest US$600 million in developing Mauritania's Chinguetti offshore oil project. The controversial amendments, which Mauritanian...

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them to create, which are forged from Arabic, Zenaga, and maybe Azer." Chinguetti's Kitab El Wasit says that "The Nmadi speak the dialect common to all the...

population over 10,000 are listed. Akreijit (أكريجيت) Bir Moghrein (بير مغرين) Chinguetti (شنقيط) Choum (شوم) F'dérik (افديرك) Ouadane (وادان) Tichit (تيشيت) List...

AND El Islah El Karama NW AJD/MR+ Others Adrar Aoujeft 1 1 5 Atar 2 2 Chinguetti 1 1 Ouadane 1 1 Assaba Barkéol 2 2 10 Boumdeid 1 1 Guerou 1 1 2 Kankoussa...

somewhat as a tourist center, but it still has the aura of a ghost town. Chinguetti is a former medieval trading center on the Adrar Plateau. Ahouli is an...

considered by some to be the fourth holiest city in Islam. The town of Chinguetti in Mauritania, whose libraries contain many ancient manuscripts, is claimed...

Mauritania began producing its first petroleum from the Chinguetti oilfield in February 2006. the Chinguetti oilfield was owned by a consortium of companies that...