Tabelot
| Tabelot rural community | |||
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| Coordinates | 17 ° 36 ′ N , 8 ° 56 ′ E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Niger | ||
| Agadez | |||
| department | Tchirozérine | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-1 | ||
| Residents | 38,994 (2012) | ||
| politics | |||
| mayor | Adam Efangal (2012) | ||
Tabelot (also: Tabelott ) is a rural community in the Tchirozérine department in Niger .
geography
The municipality is divided into 45 administrative villages, a traditional village, a hamlet, 20 camps and 16 water points. The main town of the rural parish is the administrative village of Tabelot in the center of the parish. The oasis is inhabited by sedentary Tuaregs . It is located in a valley on the southeastern edge of the Monts Bagzane , the highest region of the Aïr high mountains in the Sahara . The neighboring communities of Tabelots are Timia in the north, Fachi in the east, Tesker in the southeast, Tenhya in the south, Aderbissinat in the southeast and Dabaga in the northeast.
history
The Gobero excavation site is located in the municipality with a cemetery from the Holocene . In 1947 the French administration at the time set up a school in Tabelot especially for the nomadic population. The rural community of Tabelot was established as an administrative unit in 2002 in a previously unincorporated area. In 2009, floods caused material damage in various places in the municipality, directly affecting over 8,000 residents.
population
At the 2001 census, Tabelot had 20,667 residents. At the 2012 census, the population was 38,994.
Culture and sights
A Friday mosque of unknown year of construction stands in the center of the village at a spacious distance from the secular building. Their condition is in need of renovation because the plaster is weathered on all sides. The total area of the court mosque covers an area of 425 square meters. The inner courtyard accounts for 243 square meters, including an outbuilding in which a madrasa is housed on the west side . The madrasa is a two-aisled flat-roof building with corner battlements and western access. It is open like a gallery on all other sides of the courtyard. The prayer room building is designed as a pronounced transverse system, with mihrāb - abside . The outer walls appear unstructured and emphatically unadorned. The interior has three transversal aisles.
Another small district mosque is located on the southern outskirts.
Economy and Infrastructure
Agriculture is practiced in the gardens of Tabelot. Among other things, dates, millet, potatoes and onions are grown. The onions are an important commodity that is brought to the regional capital Agadez . In Tabelot there is also a livestock market which is particularly important for trade with Algeria .
Partner municipality
Personalities
- Tchimadem Hadattan Sanady (* 1966), tax officer and politician, born in the village of Abardak
literature
- Younoussou Rabo: Inventaire préliminaire de l'arthropofaune des cultures irriguées de la zone de Tabelot (Agadez). Savoir et perceptions of the Touareg population . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2005.
- Ibrahim Sidi: Typology des producteurs maraîchers dans les sites irrigués de Tabelot (Agadez) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2005.
- Djibrilla Soumeila: Réponse de l'arthropofaune à la variabilité structurale des jardins de la zone de Tabelot (Agadez) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2005.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.
- ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
- ↑ Conference Régionale sur la Problématique de l'éducation en milieu nomade dans l'espace sahélo-saharians. (PDF file) (No longer available online.) SE SDS Sahel Niger, 2013, p. 2 , archived from the original on January 7, 2015 ; Retrieved January 7, 2015 (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.
- ↑ Situation des besoins des populations victimes d'inondations (2009) ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 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. . Center d'Information et de Communication website, published on September 22, 2009, accessed on March 31, 2012.
- ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010 ( online version ; PDF; 3.1 MB), p. 53.
- ↑ Presentation of the results globaux définitifs du Quatrième (4ème) Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat (RGP / H) de 2012. (PDF file) Institut National de la Statistique, 2014, accessed on April 18, 2014 (French ).
- ^ Dorothee Gruner: The clay mosque on the Niger. Documentation of a traditional building type . Steiner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-05357-3 , pp. 374 .
- ↑ Aboubacar Adamou: Agadez et sa region. Contribution à l'étude du Sahel et du Sahara nigériens . Pr. De Copédith, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-85921-044-X , p. 248.
- ↑ Jolijn Geels: Niger . Bradt, Chalfont St Peter 2006, ISBN 1-84162-152-8 , p. 184.
- ↑ Livelihoods Zoning “Plus” Activity In Niger ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.5 MB). 15, Famine Early Warning Systems Network website, published August 2011, accessed January 19, 2012.
- ^ Jean-Claude Peyronnet: La solidarité internationale à l'échelle des territoires: état des lieux et perspectives. Annexe 5: Document de travail de l'ambassade de France au Niger sur les coopérations décentralisées dans ce pays. Senate of the French Republic, November 13, 2012, accessed July 6, 2013 (French).
