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	Hotell Taghaza & Reseguide Taghaza
		Oavsett om du åker på en weekend i Taghaza eller en semester i Taghaza så kan det vara en fördel att boka ett hotellrum i Taghaza.
		Den största tillverkningen av salt sker i gruvan i norra Mali, i Taghaza.
		slaves in exchange for the Saharan salt of Taghaza and for North African cloth and horses.
	www.hotellfynd.se /hotell-taghaza.php (318 words)

	Encyclopedia of African History
		The earliest-known rock salt mine was in Idjil (present-day Mauritania), where laborers exploited the deposits from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries.
		Taghaza (in present-day Mali) was also in full production in the fifteenth century.
		After the destruction of Taghaza in the sixteenth century, Taodeni (Taghaza al Ghizlan) took its place and in the mid-twentieth century was still producing several thousand tons of salt a year.
	www.routledge-ny.com /ref/africanhist/tuareg.html (1373 words)

	Taghaza - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Taghaza is an extinct town in the desert region of contemporary northern Mali.
		Taghaza produced salt throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries under Berber supervision.
		If it were not for salt Taghaza would not have existed, because it was centered in trade, and the area is unsuitable for farming.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Taghaza (177 words)

	Taghaza
		Taghaza is a destroyed town in present-day Mali.
		Taghaza produced salt throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries under Berber control.
		After the town's destruction by the Moroccan Judar Pasha's forces in the late sixteenth century, Taoudenni took its place as the region's key salt producer.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/ta/Taghaza.htm (91 words)

	Taghaza
		Der Artikel Taghaza gehört zur Kategorie: Ort in Afrika, Ort in Mali
		Jahrhunderts zum Konflikt mit Marokko unter Ahmad al-Mansur um Taghaza kam, gaben die Songhai 1585 Taghaza auf und erschlossen die Salzminen von Taoudenni 100 km südlich.
		Wenn auch in der Westsahara der Handel nicht völlig zum erliegen kam, verloren mit dem Niedergang des Handels auch die Salzminen von Taghaza ihre große Bedeutung.
	www.weblexikon.de /Taghaza.html (222 words)

	Daf J Taghaza
		A little later Daf taghaza when he went up to the Daf j taghaza large circle, Anna Pavlovna said to him: "I J taghaza hear you are refitting your Petersburg house?" This was true.
		Don't be Daf taghaza angry with me for exercising an old woman's privilege." She paused, as Daf j women always do, expecting something J after they have mentioned their age.
		He had merely understood that the woman he had known as Daf taghaza a child, of whom when her beauty was mentioned he had said absent-mindedly: "Yes, she's good looking," he had understood that this woman might belong to him.
	girtab.supox.com /article/daf%20j%20taghaza.html (911 words)

	ibn battuta - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		In the fall of 1351, Ibn Battuta set out from Fez, reaching the last Moroccan town (Sijilmasa) a bit more than a week later.
		When the winter caravans began a few months later, he was with one, and within a month he was in the Central Saharan town of Taghaza.
		A centre of the salt trade, Taghaza was awash with salt and Malian gold, though Ibn Battuta did not have a favorable impression of the place.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Ibn-Battuta (2203 words)

	Battuta's Trip Twelve
		Twenty-five days later the caravan reached the settlement of Taghaza, the main salt-mining center of the Western Sahara.
		The caravan stayed in Taghaza for ten days where he stayed in a house built entirely of salt except for the camel skin roof!
		The water was salty, too, and food had to be brought from the outside.
	www.sfusd.k12.ca.us /schwww/sch618/Ibn_Battuta/Battuta's_Trip_Twelve.html (2225 words)

	Taghaza
		Taghaza is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		En route to the coast, he and his party were attacked by Hindus, and separated from the others he was robbed and nearly lost his life.
		A centre of the salt trade, Taghaza was awash with salt and Malian gold, though Ibn Battuta did not have a favorable impression of the place.
	www.experiencefestival.com /taghaza (1700 words)

	CSM122701
		The paradox of salt is that it is one of the most common of substances, and yet, throughout most of human history, it has
		At Taghaza in the western Sahara, salt was quarried in 200-pound blocks.
		Taghaza, meanwhile, the stuff was so common that even the hovels of slaves who worked in the mines were built from
	www.dianamuir.com /default/CSM122701.html (669 words)

	WorldNet Virginia: Mali - History
		It included the gold fields of Bumbuk and Bure and the great cities of Timbuktu, Djenne, and Gao on the Niger River and extended to the salt mines of Taghaza.
		Many different peoples were thus brought in to what became a federation of states, dominated by Sundjata and the Malinke people.
		In 1324, accompanied by some 60,000 people and carrying large quantities of gold, Mansa Musa traveled from Niani along the Niger to Timbuktu and then across the Sahara via the salt mines of Taghaza from oasis to oasis, to reach Cairo.
	mali.pwnet.org /history/history_mali_empire.htm (810 words)

	sept29.tut2
		After twenty five days we reached Taghaza, an unattractive village, with the curious feature that its houses and mosques are built of blocks of salt, roofed with camel skins.
		No one lives at Taghaza except the slaves of the Masufa tribe, who dig for the salt; they subsist on dates imported from Dara and Sijilmasa [Morocco], camel's flesh, and millet imported from the Negrolands.
		The business done at Taghaza, for all its meanness, amounts to an enormous figure in terms of hundred-weights of gold dust...
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /history111/weeksept29/sept29.tut2.html (1185 words)

	Askia Mohammed I (Askia the Great)
		Askia orchestrated a program of expansion and consolidation, ultimately extending the empire from Taghaza in the north to the borders of Yatenga in the south; and from Air in the northeast to Futa Toro in Senegambia.
		Askia was also setting the stage for the Askia dynasty, systematically removing the surviving members of the preceding dynasties.
		Special governors were appointed for the towns of Timbuktu, Jenne, Masina and Taghaza.
	blackhistorypages.net /pages/askia.php (807 words)

	Ibn Battuta
		When the winter caravans began a few months later, he was with one, and within a month he was in the Central Saharan town of Taghaza.
		A centre of the salt trade, Taghaza was awash with salt and Malian gold, though Ibn Battuta did not have a favorable impression of the place.
		Another 500 miles through the worst part of the desert brought him to Mali, particularly the town of Walata.
	www.fact-index.com /i/ib/ibn_battuta.html (2128 words)

	Amazon.com: Taghaza
		the salt came from the Taghaza mines in the Sahara Desert.
		was in the Sahara at Taghaza, where it was mined by...
		In the city of Taghaza, where the largest mines were...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Taghaza&index=blended&page=1 (775 words)

	When We Ruled - 50 Greatest Africans - Dahia al-Kahina & Askia Daud
		Fifteen of them were killed in this struggle, and the nine remaining were wounded and captured.
		They killed the Songhai governor of the city and a number of Tuaregs who were working in the salt caravans.
		The surviving traders petitioned Daud to abandon Taghaza for safer pastures.
	www.whenweruled.com /articles.php?lng=en&pg=12 (674 words)

	Taghaza - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Taghaza - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Taghaza is a destroyed town in present-day Mali.
		It was once an important salt-mining centre, visited by Ibn Batuta in 1352.
	www.music.us /education/T/Taghaza.htm (237 words)

	Early African Empires and their Global Connections
		Sonni Baru refused to declare himself a Muslim, giving Askia Mohammad, who was a general for SONNI ALI BER, a legitimate reason to rebel.
		Askia Mohammad proved a highly effective ruler, extending the empire's boundaries westward to lower Senegal, eastward to Air and north to the Taghaza mines of the Sahara.
		Askia Mohammad created a professional army of slave soldiers.
	www.globaled.org /nyworld/materials/african3.html (1627 words)

	neon epiphany: finding taghaza
		Would never have thought previously that the subject of salt and its path through history could sustain a 400+ page tome, but Kurlansky...
		blog / 2003 / march / “finding taghaza”
		About a third of the way through Mark Kurlansky’s Salt: A World History, picked up in San Francisco while waiting for typically unfortunate airport food to settle.
	www.neonepiphany.com /blog/2003/03/06T232519 (400 words)

	African Taghaza
		If you don’t know what Taghaza is than I’ve made a treasure hunt for you to find out more about it.
		Grab your brain and head for the further reaches of cyberspace.
		Below is a list of questions about a Taghaza.
	www.clovisusd.k12.ca.us /alta/Staff/Teachers/costa/ab67/taghaza (145 words)

	Empires of the Western Sudan \| Thematic Essay \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Salt was essential in the regions south of the Sahara both as a dietary supplement and a preservative.
		Strategically located between southern gold-producing regions and Saharan salt mines like Taghaza, the kingdoms of the western Sudan were well positioned to amass great wealth through the taxation of imports and exports.
		Securing vast trading territories required mobility, and if the camel facilitated trans-Saharan trade, it was the horse that enabled empires to dominate it.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/wsem/hd_wsem.htm (723 words)

	info: Sijilmasa (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Spread of Islam in West AfricaThey document famous trade routes in Africa - from Sijilmasa to Taghaza, Awdaghast, which led to the empire of Ghana, and from Sijilmasa to Tuat, Gao and Timbikutu.
		Islam in West Africa They document famous trade routes in Africa - from Sijilmasa to Taghaza, Awdaghast, which led to the empire of Ghana, and from Sijilmasa to Tuat, Gao and Timbikutu.
		Algeria - ZayanidsSituated at the head of the Imperial Road through the strategic Taza Gap to Marrakech, the city controlled the caravan route to Sijilmasa, gateway for the gold and slave trade...
	www.napoli-pizza.net /Sijilmasa.html (634 words)

	Ahmad al-Mansur
		Zur Förderung der Wirtschaft baute er die Handelsbeziehungen mit Europa aus, wobei England bevorzugt wurde.
		Um auch Gewinne aus dem Transsaharahandel ziehen zu können, wurden schon 1584 die Salzminen von Taghaza in der Sahara unter Kontrolle Marokko gebracht.
		Später wurde sogar ein Feldzug durch die Sahara unternommen um das Songhaireich zu zerschlagen und die Städte Timbuktu und Gao am Niger zu erobern (1590-1591).
	www.xn--enzyklopdie-s8a.de /Ahmad_al-Mansur.html (420 words)

	The HUBB - View Single Post - Mauritania from the east
		I havent heard of/cant f ind half these places after El Mreiti tho I assume Challaouya is Ghalaouya (old fort and rock art) near Guelb (which is near Ouadane, etc).
		And why west to 'Foum Elba' (where ever that is) if there is a regular-ish track NW to Taghaza?
		I am sure the way to Taoudeni and Taghaza is well known to Tim guides but west of there looks like 300km cross country until the El Mreiti well where a piste runs down to Ghalaouya, etc.
	www.horizonsunlimited.com /hubb/63774-post4.html (172 words)

	Battuta's Trip Twelve
		Twenty-five days later the caravan reached the settlement of Taghaza, the main salt-mining center of the Western Sahara.
		The caravan stayed in Taghaza for ten days where he stayed in a house built entirely of salt except for the camel skin roof!
		The water was salty, too, and food had to be brought from the outside.
	www.sfusd.edu /schwww/sch618/Ibn_Battuta/Battuta's_Trip_Twelve.html (2225 words)

	Askia Mohammed I (Askia the Great)
		Askia orchestrated a program of expansion and consolidation, ultimately extending the empire from Taghaza in the north to the borders of Yatenga in the south; and from Air in the northeast to Futa Toro in Senegambia.
		Askia was also setting the stage for the Askia dynasty, systematically removing the surviving members of the preceding dynasties.
		Special governors were appointed for the towns of Timbuktu, Jenne, Masina and Taghaza.
	www.blackhistorypages.net /pages/askia.php (807 words)

	Taghaza Free Essay
		We are going to Taghaza to trade our gold for the salt they have.
		Salt is an essential part of our diet and must be replaced as it is lost through our sweat and urine.
		Then we prayed to Allah before finally leaving to Taghaza.
	www.findfreepapers.com /viewpaper/12043.html (198 words)

	Africa and Slavery 1500-1800 by Sanderson Beck
		That year Muhammad Askiya declared a jihad to convert Nassere, the Naba of Yatenga; so many Mossi resisted that he had to build a special quarter for the captives in his capital at Gao.
		A struggle with Morocco sultan Muhammad al-Shaykh caused the loss of the salt mines at Taghaza in 1557.
		The next year al-Mansur demanded a tax of one mithqal of gold for every load of salt from Taghaza, but Askia Ishaq II answered his letter with spears.
	www.san.beck.org /1-13-Africa1500-1800.html (22906 words)

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		ba arze salam khedmate shoma dooste geramy taghaza dashtam ke sher haye shoma ro dar webloge shakhsi khodam ba zekre name shoma aziz sabt konam......lotfan javabeto0no baram mail bezanid
		>ba arze salam khedmate shoma dooste geramy taghaza >dashtam ke sher haye shoma ro dar webloge shakhsi >khodam ba zekre name shoma aziz sabt konam >......lotfan javabeto0no baram mail bezanid
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	Página/12 Web :: turismo :: Camino a Tombuctú
		La sal y el oro: ésas eran las mercancías claves, junto con los esclavos del nuevamente floreciente comercio transahariano.
		La sal, componente esencial para el organismo humano, brotaba sin cesar en las salinas de Taghaza, en pleno desierto, pero escaseaba dramáticamente más hacia el sur.
		Allí, en cambio, en los parajes ya húmedos y boscosos del Africa tropical, el oro era tan abundante que los soberanos de aquellos reinos enjaezaban sus cabalgaduras con pepitas de oro gruesas como el puño, decían los rumores.
	www.pagina12.com.ar /diario/suplementos/turismo/9-912-2006-10-12.html (1611 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thus far I have been unable to find the locations of
		There is a pull down menu at the bottom of the page with references to Songhai and Mali as well.
		For Taghaza, there is a map on the page at http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/Ibn_Battuta/Battuta%27s_Trip_Twelve.html
	www.weber.k12.ut.us /wciv/10-2hints.htm (269 words)

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