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	Ahaggar Mountains - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ahaggar Mountains - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The Ahaggar Mountains (Arabic : جبال هقار), also known as the Hoggar, are a highland region in central Sahara, southern Algeria.
		Ahaggar Mountains - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Ahaggar...
	encarta.msn.com /Ahaggar_Mountains.html (166 words)

	Ahaggar Mountains - Peakware World Mountain Encyclcopedia
		The Ahaggar is the further west of the two groups, rising abruptly from the vast desert of Southern Algeria.
		The Ahaggar massif is composed largely of extinct volcanoes and pinnacles of naked rock.
		Ahaggar is situated 1,000 miles south of the Mediterranean, 1.000 miles east of the Atlantic and roughly 1,000 miles north of the Bight of Benin.
	www.peakware.com /areas.html?a=299 (214 words)

	Ahaggar Mountains Information
		The ecology of the Ahaggar Mountains is best described in the article West Saharan montane xeric woodlands, the ecoregion to which this area belongs.
		The Ahaggar massif is the land of the Imuhagh or Kel Ahaggar, a subdivision of the Tuareg people.
		The main city nearby the Ahaggar is Tamanghasset, built in a desert valley or wadi.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Ahaggar_Mountains (258 words)

	Ahaggar Mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ahaggar massif is the land of the Imuhagh or Kel Ahaggar, a subdivision of the Tuareg people.
		In the oasis of Abalassa near the town of Tamanghasset is located the tomb of the famous Tin Hinan, the matriach believed to be the ancestor of the Tuareg of Ahaggar.
		The main city nearby the Ahaggar is Tamanghasset, built in a desert valley or wadi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ahaggar_Mountains (281 words)

	Sahara - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On the north-west of the Mountain Ahaggar, and separated from it by a wide plain, is the Muidir plateau, which extends nearly east and west 200 m.
		This series of tracts may be called the northern zone of the Sahara; it forms a kind of bow, with its extremities respectively at the Atlantic and the Libyan desert and its apex in the south of Tunisia.
		A broad belt of Archaean rocks extends throughout the desert, appearing at intervals in the form of hills and plateaus from beneath the superficial sands and Quaternary deposits, Examples are the granite of Air and the gneiss and mica-schists of this massif and of the Ahaggar plateau.
	4.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SAHARA.htm (6083 words)

	Algeria - April 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Ahaggar is the further west of the two groups, rising abruptly from the vast desert of Southern Algeria.
		Ahaggar is situated 1,600 kilometres south of the Mediterranean, 1,600 kilometres east of the Atlantic and roughly 1,600 kilometres north of the Bight of Benin.
		The Ahaggar massif is composed largely of extinct volcanoes and pinnacles of naked rock.
	www.suebarton.free-online.co.uk (271 words)

	Ahaggar Mountains - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		The Ahaggar Mountains, also known as the Hoggar, are a highland region in central Sahara, southern Algeria.
		Ahaggar Mountains ecology is best described in the article West Saharan montane xeric woodlands, the ecoregion the area belongs to.
		The main city nearby the Ahaggar is Tamanghasset, built in a desert valley or wadi.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Ahaggar (269 words)

	The Islamic Digest On Line
		Until the late 19th century, the Ahaggar Tuareg ruled much of the desert from the oasis towns of Tamanrasset and In Salah, where they dealth in ivory, gold and slaves, supplementing their income by extracting protection money from passing caravans.
		On hearing, in 1881, that these aspects of their livelihood were under threat from French plans to build a trans-Saharan railway, they responded by massacring almost the entire expedition that had been sent to reconnoitre the route.
		In 1928, in a remote cave, he discovered a rock painting of a woman whose breasts were daubed white, and claimed her as Antinea, siren of the unforgettable Ahaggar.
	www.al-shia.com /html/eng/books/miscelleneous/wonders-of-our-world/focus2.htm (754 words)

	Touareg : The forgotten poeple
		The ancient history of the Berbers in the Sahara and the settlement of the Tuareg in the Ahaggar are not sufficiently known.
		The majority of the Ahaggar inhabitants claim their roots back to the mythical queen Tin-Hinan and her Road companion Takama, who were alleged to have travelled from Tafilalet in Morocco to the south, the country of the Tuareg.
		As for the French colonisation of the Ahaggar, it lasted from the defeat of the Tuareg at the battle of Tit in 1920 until Algeria's independence in 1962.
	amazighworld.org /studies/articles/forgotten_poeple.php (5510 words)

	Ahaggar Mountains - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Ahaggar Mountains, also Hoggar Mountains, plateau region, southern Algeria, in the centre of the Sahara.
		Geographically distinct are the western Sahara, which is sometimes called the Sahara proper; the central Ahaggar Mountains and the Tibesti, a plateau...
		Algeria has four main physical regions, which extend east to west across the country in parallel zones.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Ahaggar_Mountains.html (94 words)

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		main plateau, and partly filling the valley between the Ahaggar At the outbreak of the Second Punic War (219 B.C.) it was a plateau and the Tasili of the Asjer (see infra); are the Anahef large and commercially prosperous town of native—not Greek— mountains.
		Finally in 218 Ahaggar, and separated from it by a wide plain, is the ranges.
		North-east of the Ahaggar (in the direction of Tripoli) is the Tasili more of it till at the opening of the Christian era it appears of the Asjer (4000-5000 ft.), which runs for 300 m.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=58306&locale=en (411 words)

	Ahaggar Mountains - MSN Encarta
		Ahaggar Mountains, also Hoggar Mountains, plateau region, southern Algeria, in the center of the Sahara.
		It is an arid, rocky, upland region that rises to a maximum elevation in Mount Tahat (3,003 m/9,852 ft).
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	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554518/Ahaggar_Mountains.html (63 words)

	imuhar - Kel Ahaggar-NomadInnen
		Nomadinnen der Kel Ahaggar, die in ihrer Sprache (Tamahaq) keinen eigenen Begriff für "Arbeit" kennen, erwirtschaften ihre Subsistenz in verschiedenen Handlungsfeldern.
		Von den Kel Ahaggar werden Dromedare, Ziegen und neuerdings auch immer mehr Schafe gezüchtet.
		Einige Überlegungen zur Kultur und Gesellschaft der Tuareg unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kel Ahaggar (Algerien).
	www.oeku.net /cp/imuhar/imuhar-full.html (3398 words)

	- Wildlife in Algeria’s Ahaggar National Park
		Still, it is known to retain significant wildlife populations, including the European wild boar and Barbary red deer in the north and its desert fauna in the vast stretches of the Sahara Desert which covers the central and southern parts of the country.
		This region is dominated by the steep volcanic mountains and hills of the Ahaggar massif, with wide undulating gravel plains and some areas of sand dunes.
		The Ahaggar Park is managed by the Ministry of Culture in Algiers and employs about 500 staff, including the 46 ranger posts distributed throughout its area.
	www.africanconservation.org /dcforum/DCForumID5/382.html (642 words)

	Kel Ahaggar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kel Ahaggar (trans: "People of Ahaggar") is a Tuareg confederation in the Ahaggar Mountains in Algeria.
		The confederation is believed to have been founded by Tin Hinan, with the "official" founding being around 1750.
		The Kel Ahaggar confederation is made up of a number of tribes, including:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kel_Ahaggar (105 words)

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		VEGETATION The flora of Ahaggar is important because of the slightly wetter climatic conditions.
		There are three vegetational zones, the tropical zone from the base of the massif up to approximately 1,800 - 1,900m, a lower mediterranean zone from 1,900 m to 2,300 - 2,400m and an upper mediterranean zone from 2,400 to the highest summits.
		FAUNA The Ahaggar mountains are important resting areas for migrating Palaearctic birds such as Ixobrychus minutus, Nycticorax nycticorax, Egretta garzetta, Ardea purpurea, Ciconia ciconia, Plegadis falcinellus, Porzana porzana, Gallinago media, Otus scops, Upupa epops and Jynx torquilla (Ledant, 1985).
	www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/1460v.htm (898 words)

	Tuareg - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Tuareg broadswords were no match for the more advanced weapons of French squadrons, and after numerous massacres, the Tuareg were subdued and required to sign treaties in Mali 1905 and Niger 1917.
		At the turn of the 19th century the Tuareg country was organized into confederations, each ruled by a supreme Chief (Amenokal), along with a counsel of senior tribesmen elected to assist the chief.
		The most famous Tuareg leader was a woman, Tin Hinan, heroine and spiritual leader who founded a legendary kingdom in the Ahaggar mountains.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Tuareg (1848 words)

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