Aderke

Aderke
Aderke
Coordinates	21 ° 15 ′  N , 17 ° 26 ′  E Coordinates: 21 ° 15 ′  N , 17 ° 26 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Chad
region	Tibesti
height	1276 m

The Tibesti Mountains and its settlements

Aderke (in French sources also Aderké ) is a settlement in the north of Chad in the Tibesti region , about 70 km east of Bardaï . The place is located north of the Tibesti Mountains and is connected to the provincial capital Bardaï by a slope. The place, no longer safely inhabited today, is centrally located in the Enneri Zoumri ("Zumri dry valley").

history

The Austrian anthropologist Peter Fuchs mentions in his book "The peoples of South-Eastern Sahara" (1961) Fierce fighting between Tubu groups to Aderké where the communities of Taizera the clans of Funtia and Dirsina from the Bardai - would have sold and Zummeri Valley : "However, the Taizera occupied the abandoned villages of Uonofo , Edimpi and Aderké, where they devoted themselves to soil construction. It is assumed that the Taizera gave the cultures of the Bardai and Zummeri valleys a new impetus." And elsewhere: "Now the Taizera occupied the places Uonofo, Edimpi and Aderké, where they still live. The Taizera are very numerous. They own large palmeries and have allied themselves with the Tomagra through marriage. They are exclusively farmers. At They play an important role in the election and appointment of the Derde of Arna des Tibesti. "

For the most recent period (from around 2000) there is no reliable evidence of the existence of the Aderke site as a permanent settlement (satellite images with house floor plans, photos of the site or clear literature), and there is no date palm plantation typical of other oases at the coordinates of Aderke. However, Aderke is still shown on current maps as a central point in the Zoumri valley. Zoumri (sometimes written Zummeri or Zumri in German sources ) is the name of one of the four sub-prefectures of the Tibesti Est department.

literature

• Peter Fuchs : The peoples of the Southeast Sahara: Tibesti, Borku , Ennedi . (254 pages), Vienna 1961
• Pierre Pinta: Libye: Des cités antiques aux oasis du Sahara. (309 pp.), 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pierre Pinta: "Libye: Des cités antiques aux oasis du Sahara" (309 pp., 2007), recorded in the map on p. 12 as a currently existing settlement.
2. ^ Paul Scholte, Peter Robertson (2001): Important Bird Areas in Africa and associated islands - Chad. PDF file, p. 4 (= p. 180 of the source, left column below "the town of Aderke" )
3. ↑ Peter Fuchs: The peoples of the Southeast Sahara: Tibesti, Borku, Ennedi. Vienna 1961, p. 205
4. ↑ Peter Fuchs: The peoples of the Southeast Sahara: Tibesti, Borku, Ennedi. Vienna 1961, p. 120