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    The Tagant Plateau is located in eastern Mauritania, forming a stony part of the Sahara Desert. The Tagant Region, a national administrative division,...
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  • Tagant may refer to: Tagant Region, a region in south-central Mauritania Tagant Plateau, a land area in eastern Mauritania This disambiguation page lists...
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    Tagant (Arabic: ولاية تكانت, romanized: Wilāyat Tkānt) is a region in south-central Mauritania named for the Tagant Plateau. Its capital is Tidjikdja...
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    represents one of the last colonies known in the Sahara today; the Tagant Plateau colony in Mauritania has likely been extinct since 1996. Travel to the...
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    Beginning in the mid-17th century, migrants from the Adrar Plateau region moved into the Tagant Plateau and displaced the native population. Henna design on...
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    eastern Mauritania. It is located between Kiffa and Néma, south of the Tagant Plateau. The region is also referred to as Hodh or El Hodh (Arabic: الحوض, lit...
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    Tichitt culture (redirect from Dhar Tagant)
    Dhar Tagant) of Mauritania are located north of the Senegal River. The Dhars of Mauritania are located between the Hodh Depression and Tagant Plateau. Dhar...
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    (Berber languages: Ticit, Arabic: تيشيت), is a village at the foot of the Tagant Plateau in central southern Mauritania that is known for its vernacular architecture...
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    power, Takrur controlled the north bank of the Senegal as far as the Tagant plateau and Aleg.: 27  The Gorgol river valley was the heartland of the kingdom...
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  • Hoorewendu) is a lake and wetlands area in Tagant Region of Mauritania. It captures runoff from the Tagant plateau and supports a range of indigenous flora...
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    or Fula lands: Fuuta Kingi, meaning 'Old Fuuta', encompassing the Tagant Plateau, the Assaba Region, the Hodh, Futa Toro and the area around Nioro du...
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    Tidjikja (category Tagant Region)
    Tidjikja (Arabic: تجكجة) is the capital of the Tagant region of central Mauritania, lying on the Tagant plateau. Founded in 1680, it has a population of around...
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    settlements northern coastal Peru 3000 1700 Tichit Neolithic village on the Tagant Plateau central southern Mauritania 2000 500 Oaxaca, state Southwestern Mexico...
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    Members of the Sanhaja confederation in the vicinity of the Adrar Plateau and Tagant Plateau. Gomez instead suggests that these tribes would have inhabited...
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  • surname Rashad, a surname Rachid, Mauritania, a town at the foot of the Tagant Plateau Rashid, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province Rashid, Yemen, a village...
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  • Rachid, Mauritania (category Tagant Region)
    central Mauritania at the foot of the Tagant Plateau . It is located in the Tidjikja Department in the Tagant region. It is located 39 kilometres (21 nmi)...
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    Tagant Plateau into Lake Gabou. The area has been an important center for pastoralism and agriculture for thousands of years.: 32  The Tagant Plateau...
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    these outcroppings may support vegetation. In the populated Adrar and Tagant plateaus, springs and wells provide water for pasturage and some agriculture...
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  • modern-day Mauritania. Related Gangara populations persisted in the Tagant plateau until the 18th century and in the Assaba until the 19th. The first mention...
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    Agongointo-Zoungoudo". UNESCO. Sidatt, M. "Introduction to the History of the Tagant Plateau". Tagant. Universidad Complutense of Madrid. Nyarko, B. (2007). "Investigation...
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  • Sidatt, « Introduction à l’Histoire du plateau du Tagant », In Conservación y desarrollo en la Meseta de Tagant, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, février...
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    of Hodh Ech Chargui to the east, the Mauritanian regions of Trarza and Tagant to the south and the Mauritanian region of Inchiri to the west. As of 2013...
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    to the 17th centuries, Futa Toro included the plains up to the Tagant and Assaba plateaus.: 27, 33  The valley of the Gorgol river on the north bank, with...
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    Mauritania dates from 2200 BCE to 200 BCE. Tichitt culture, at Dhar Néma, Dhar Tagant, Dhar Tichitt, and Dhar Walata, included a four-tiered hierarchal social...
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    and 1904, the French armies succeeded in occupying Trarza, Brakna, and Tagant, but the northern emirate of Adrar held out longer, aided by the anticolonial...
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  • the Sanhaja confederation, the Lamtuna inhabited the areas of Adrar and Tagant. During the 11th century, the Lamtuna, Godala, and Masufa tribes were united...
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  • Chat Tboul 15,500 38,000 Lac Gabou et le réseau hydrographique du Plateau du Tagant 9,500 23,000 Parc National du Banc d'Arguin 1,200,000 3,000,000 Parc...
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  • Emirate of Trarza (1640–present) Emirate of Adrar (1740–1932) Emirate of Tagant (1580–present) Niger Dendi Kingdom (1591–1901) Sultanate of Agadez (1449–1900)...
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  • Tichitt culture, including Dhar Tichitt, Dhar Walata, Dhar Néma, and Dhar Tagant. Dhar Tichitt, which includes Dakhlet el Atrouss, may have served as the...
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    zone with a date palm overstory, these oases are usually located below plateaus and "watered either by springs or by aflaj, tunnel systems dug into the...
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