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Tagsessouk
3 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Medieval trans-Saharan (8th–15th c; peak 11th–14th c) · Sanhaja Berber / Tuareg (Kel Essouk) / Songhai
Arid 12 ha Berber warehouse town with 8th-c mosque (among earliest in West Africa) and 750,000 glass beads on salt route.
🇲🇱 Mali · Necropolis
Medieval Trans-Saharan (9th–15th c. CE) · Sanhaja Berber / Tuareg / Andalusian-linked
Bazina ridge south of Saharan caravan city with Andalusian lustre shards.
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Trans-Saharan caravan (c. 700–1400 CE; Almoravid market) · Berber–Tuareg (Tadmekka Sanhaja) / Arab caravan
Mysterious stone city in Saharan piedmont, Essouk is Tadmekka the 9th c Arab-described 'Tadmakkat' gold city with 450×250 m stone houses, mosque and 11th c Arabic stelae, on Niger–...