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🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient village
Neolithic to medieval (1500 BCE–17th c; historic 11th c) · Tichitt culture → Soninke Wagadu → Beidane Moors
Neolithic to oasis caravan terminus: Tichitt-culture compounds plus red-white geometric plaster houses of 11th-c Ghana twin capital Biru.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
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.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Submerged site
Ghana to Almoravid (c. 500–1200 CE) · Soninke Ghana / Almoravid / Wagadu
Ghana Empire caravan harbour 300×200 m dune-sealed at Kumbi Saleh – moated stone town 15 ha.