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Taghaza (Arabic: تاغزة) (also Teghaza) is an
abandoned salt-mining
centre located in a salt pan in the
desert region of
northern Mali. It was an important...
- Mauritania, from the Sénégal River, and the
Taghaza Trail, from the
Niger River, past the salt
mines of
Taghaza,
north to the
great trading center of Sijilmasa...
- one time the
caravan route from
Timbuktu extended through Taoudenni to
Taghaza,
another salt-mining site, and on to the
lands north of the
Sahara on the...
- before.
Tangiers Tlemcen Tunis Fes
Algiers Ténès
Alexandria Cairo Sijilmasa Taghaza Oualata Niani Timbuktu Gao I-n-Azaoua
Takedda Cagliari Marrakech Gibraltar...
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Empire between 1539 and 1549, to
grant him
control of the salt
mines of
Taghaza .
Ishaq I sent a
group of 2,000
mounted men to raid a
market town in the...
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program of
expansion and
consolidation which extended the
empire from
Taghaza in the
North to the
borders of
Yatenga in the South; and from Air in the...
- (Marbala),
Spain Málaga (Málaga),
Spain Granada (Gharnāṭa),
Spain Taghaza (
Taghāzā), Mali
Oualata (Īwālātan),
Mauritania Timbuktu (Tunbuktū), Mali Gao...
- more entrenched, trans-Saharan
trade flourished, and the salt
mines of
Taghaza were
brought within the empire's boundaries. In 1528, Askia's children...
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restabilize the empire. A
royal slave imprisoned at the
remote but very
valuable Taghaza salt mine
escaped to Marrakesh,
where he told the
Sultan Ahmad I al-Mansur...
- in
February 1352 and
after 25 days
arrived at the dry salt lake bed of
Taghaza with its salt mines. All of the
local buildings were made from
slabs of...
