Marandet

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Location of Marandet in Niger

Marandet (also Marandat , on Tuareg Mărăndat , historically Maranda ) is a village in the municipality of Aderbissinat in Niger .

Marandet is located southwest of the city of Agadez at the foot of the Tiguidit step , which here reaches a height of 150 meters. The Kori Marandet , a seasonal water-bearing river, runs near the village . Marandet had 743 people in 143 households at the 1988 census, 310 people in 57 households at the 2001 census, and 652 people in 117 households at the 2012 census.

In the area around the settlement numerous finds from the Iron Age have been made. Along with Takedda, it is one of the ancient centers of the Aïr Mountains . The early Arab geographers knew them by the name Maranda , so they called them al-Yaʿqūbī in 872, al-Masʿūdī , Ibn al-Faqih and Ibn Hauqal in the 10th century and al-Idrisi in the 12th century. To the east of the village is the Tawachi dinosaur cemetery , where an American palaeontologist team led by Paul Sereno uncovered completely preserved skeletons of the genera Jobaria and Afrovenator in 2000 and 2001 . With Sereno's support, the village community founded an organization to promote the paleontological heritage, which protects the fossils from erosion damage during the rainy season and offers guided tours of the dinosaur cemetery.

literature

  • Danilo Grébénart: La region d'In Gall-Tegidda N Tesemt (Niger). Program Archéologique d'Urgence 1977–1981 (=  Études Nigériennes . Tome II: Le Néolitique Final et les Débuts de la Métallurgie, no. 49 ). Institut de Recherches en Sciences Humaines, Niamey 1985.
  • Sonja Magnavita, Abdoulaye Maga, Carlos Magnavita, Oumarou A. Ide: New studies on Marandet, central Niger . In: Nyame Akuma . No. 68 , December 2007, ISSN  0713-5815 , p. 47-51 ( safa.rice.edu [PDF]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl-G. Prasse, Ghoubeïd Alojaly, Ghabdouane Mohamed: Dictionnaire Touareg - Français (Niger): M – Ž . Museum Tasculanum Press, Copenhagen 2003, ISBN 87-7289-844-5 , p. 553 .
  2. ↑ a b Harald A. Friedl: The justifiability of ethnotourism using the example of the Tuareg of the Agadez region, Republic of Niger (West Africa) - An evaluation from the perspective of applied tourism ethics . Dissertation. Karl Franzens University Graz, Graz 2005, p. 222 .
  3. ↑ Recensement Général de la Population 1988: Répertoire National des Villages du Niger . Bureau Central de Recensement, Ministère du Plan, République du Niger, Niamey March 1991, p. 22 ( ceped.org [PDF; accessed January 31, 2018]). www.ceped.org ( Memento of the original dated January 31, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ceped.org
  4. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR file) (No longer available online.) Institut National de la Statistique, archived from the original on January 9, 2017 ; Retrieved November 8, 2010 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stat-niger.org
  5. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 3 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  6. ↑ Aboubacar Adamou: Agadez et sa Région (=  Études Nigériennes . No. 44 ). Pr. De Copédith, Paris 1979, p. 46 .
  7. ↑ Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette: Niger . Petit Futé, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 183 .
  8. ↑ Harald A. Friedl: The justifiability of ethnotourism using the example of the Tuareg of the Agadez region, Republic of Niger (West Africa) - An evaluation from the perspective of applied tourism ethics . Dissertation. Karl Franzens University Graz, Graz 2005, p. 237-238 .

Coordinates: 16 ° 23 '  N , 7 ° 26'  E