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Aoudaghost
Tegdaoust

here: 17.4242N 10.4101W, in the wikipedia article: 17.25N 10.25 W

In the 10th century Aoudaghoust was a very prosperous Berber kingdom and an important stage for caravans between Chinguetti Tomboctou. Under the influence of Ghana and later the Almoravids took from the 12th century. the importance of Aoudaghoust continuously. Today from the old town remained just a few stones and a well used by the nomads." (zit. and the photo from hoteltomboctou.com )

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"The western Sanhaja were divided into several tribes - the Gazzula and the Lamta in the Draa valley and the foothills of the Anti-Atlas range, further south, encamped in the western Sahara desert, were the Massufa, the Lamtuna and the Banu Warith, and most southerly of all, the Gudala (or Judala), in littoral Mauritania down to the borderlands of the Senegal river. The western Sanhaja had been converted to Islam sometime in the 9th C. They were subsequently united in the 10th C., and with the zeal of neophyte converts launched several campaigns against the "Sudanese" (pagan black peoples of sub-Saharan Africa).[10] Under their king Tinbarutan ibn Usfayshar, the Sanhaja Lamtuna erected (or captured) the citadel of Awdaghust, a critical stop on the trans-Saharan trade route. After the collapse of the Sanhaja union, Awdagust passed over to the Ghana empire and the trans-Saharan routes were taken over by the Zenata Maghrawa of Sijilmassa. The Maghrawa also exploited this disunion to dislodge the Sanhaja Gazzula and Lamta out of their pasturelands in the Sous and Draa valleys. Around 1035, the Lamtuna chieftain Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Tifat (alias Tarsina), tried to reunite the Sanhaja desert tribes, but his reign lasted less than three years." (zit.: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almoravid_dynasty )