Nioro du Sahel
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Coordinates | 15 ° 14 ′ N , 9 ° 35 ′ W | |
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Country | Mali | |
Kayes | ||
ISO 3166-2 | ML-1 | |
Residents | 33,486 (2009) | |
Street scene in Nioro in February 2014
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Nioro du Sahel is a city in the Kayes region of western Mali . In 2009 there were about 33,500 inhabitants in the city.
Geographical location
Nioro du Sahel is about 215 kilometers east of Kayes and about 330 kilometers northwest of the capital Bamako near the Mauritanian border. The city is located in the Sahel zone or the northern Sudan zone . A river that only carries water in the rainy season between late June and early October flows through the city from south to north towards Mauritania, where it is lost in the semi-desert .
Climate table
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Nioro du Sahel
Source: wetterkontor.de
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history
Founded in the 16th or 17th centuries by a slave named Diawandé , Nioro reached a heyday in the 18th century when it was the capital of Kaarta , a Bambara empire . The place became a major trading center between the Upper Senegal River and Sudan .
The Tukulor and conquerors Al-Hajj Omar raided in the early 1850s Kaarta and forced the conversion of the kingdom to Islam . In 1854 he had a large mosque built in Nioro . In the 1920s, Nioro became the center of the Hamālīya, a branch of the Tijaniyya . In 1936, the followers of the order, also known as Hamallists, changed their qibla and from then on prayed to Nioro, which they called their Mecca .
Infrastructure
West of the city is a regional airport , the Aéroport de Nioro . Also to the west of the city is the Malian national road N3, which leads from the Mauritanian border in the north to the national road N1 in the south, which in turn connects the capital Bamako.
Sons and daughters of the place
- Cheick Modibo Diarra (* 1952), astrophysicist and politician
- Tiébilé Dramé (* 1955), politician
Individual evidence
- ↑ INSTAT: Results of the 2009 census (PDF; 860 kB), at Webcite.
- ↑ Cf. JC Froelich: Art. "Ḥamāliyya" in The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition . Vol. III, pp. 107-108, here 108a.