Taghelel

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Taghelel in Stieler's hand atlas from 1891
Taghelel as part of the (fictional) itinerary in five weeks in a balloon

Taghelel (also: Tagelel , Tághelel , Taguelel ) was a settlement in the Damergou countryside in Niger .

Taghelel was in the area of ​​today's rural community Olléléwa , which belongs to the Tanout department in the Zinder region. The Africa explorers Heinrich Barth , Adolf Overweg and James Richardson arrived at the village, coming from the Aïr , at the beginning of 1851. Here their ways parted. Barth wrote a detailed description of Taghelel. According to him, the small settlement was three to three and a half miles northeast of the village of Olléléwa and about two miles from the hamlet of Farara . Taghelel consisted of approximately 120 huts in two hamlets, surrounded by four or five tamarind treeswere separated from each other. The importance of the settlement lay in its function as the southern rulership of Annur, the ruler of Tintellust . Barth therefore counted Taghelel, along with Dan Kamsa , Farara, Koulan Karki and Olléléwa, to the politically most important settlements in Damergou.

The writer Jules Verne made the heroes of his 1863 novel Five Weeks fly in a balloon over Taghelel. The French research and military expedition Mission Foureau-Lamy could not find the settlement in 1899 and mistakenly identified the village of Gangara as Barths Taghelel.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 686 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  2. ^ Gerd Spittler : Explorers in Transit: Travels to Timbuktu and Agades in the Nineteenth Century . In: History and Anthropology . Vol. 9, No. 2-3 , 1996, pp. 242 ( ethnologie.uni-bayreuth.de [PDF; accessed on January 28, 2019]).
  3. ^ Heinrich Barth: Journeys and discoveries in North and Central Africa in the years 1849 to 1855 . First volume. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1857, p. 614, 618-619 .
  4. ↑ Jules Verne: Five weeks in a balloon . Contumax, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8430-7406-3 , p. 241 (French: Cinq semaines en ballon. Voyages des découvertes en Afrique par trois Anglais . Paris 1863. Translated by Martha Lion).
  5. ↑ Emile Reibell: Carnet de route de la mission saharienne Foureau-Lamy (1898-1900) . Preface by General Chambrun. Plon, Paris 1931, p. 205 .

Coordinates: 14 ° 32 '  N , 8 ° 40'  E