Assodé
Assodé was a city in the Aïr Mountains, in the north of today's Niger , about 30 km northwest of Timia and about 100 km southeast of Iferouane . The two cities are now connected by a car track.
Founded in the 11th century, the city was for a long time the Tuareg trade center and the oldest and largest city in the Aïr mountain region. Today only ruins remain. It was strategically important for deliveries of goods from the Kaouar Valley ( Bilma salt, fabrics for overgarments ( tekatkat ) and dates) and the Maghreb to the north (especially wool carpets) and the Songhai Empire (gold, millet and slaves). There were also trade relations with the Haussa , who pushed onto the Assodés market. The importance of the area as an economic region is attributed to the fact that a few hundred years ago the Aïr was still richly irrigated and lush vegetation stood in the valleys, which provided the large herds of residents with grazing grounds. The city increasingly benefited from the trans-Saharan trade from the 18th century and was abandoned after the Tuareg forces around their amenokal Ag Mohammed Wau Teguidda Kaocen (1880-1919) (see Kaosenaufstand (also: Kaocen uprising)) were released in 1917 because of the Kaosen uprising in Agadez had failed.
literature
- Samuel Decalo, Historical Dictionary of Niger . Scarecrow Press, London and New Jersey (1979). ISBN 0-8108-1229-0
- Jolijn Geels, Niger . Bradt London and Globe Pequot New York (2006). ISBN 1-84162-152-8 .
- Gerd Spittler : Droughts, war and hunger crises among the Kel Ewey (1900–1985). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1989 (monograph).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerd Spittler , Dürren, Krieg und Hungerkrisen, p. 9 (see lit.)
- ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo, Historical Dictionary of Niger
- ↑ Laurence Rivaillé, Contes et légends touaregs du Niger: des hommes et des djinns , p. 185
Coordinates: 18 ° 26 ' N , 8 ° 28' E