Ludamar
Ludamar was an empire of the Moors in the west of today's Mali and in the south of Mauritania . The area lay northeast of the Senegal River and was bordered in the north by the Sahara desert and in the south by the empires Kaarta and Bambara . The place Benowm (Binaun?) Was the capital of the empire and an important way station of the Trans-Saharan trade from Morocco to Timbuktu .
history
The British African explorer Mungo Park was captured by the ruler Ali in 1796 on his first trip to the Niger River . Through the descriptions in Park's travelogue Travels in the Interior of Africa , Ludamar became known to a broad European public in one fell swoop.
See also: Mungo Park: Captive by the Moors
swell
- Josiah Conder: Dictionary of geography, ancient and modern ... with a brief notice of ... principal towns ... and glossary of geographical Terms. 1834