Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and ... (UNESCO/NHK)
Founded in the 11th and 12th centuries to serve the caravans crossing the Sahara, these trading and religious centres became focal points of Islamic culture. They have managed to preserve an urban fabric that evolved between the 12th and 16th centuries. Typically, houses with patios crowd along narrow streets around a mosque with a square minaret. They illustrate a traditional way of life centred on the nomadic culture of the people of the ...
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[Cantonese] Mauritania Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata 瓦丹、欣盖提、提希特和瓦拉塔古镇
[ 这些城镇建造于公元11世纪和12世纪，是贸易和宗教的中心，为经过撒哈拉沙漠的商队提供服务，并逐渐发展成为伊斯兰文化的中心。人们设法保存了公元12世纪到16世纪所建的城镇。沿着狭窄的街道是拥挤的带有天井的房子，环绕着一个有正方形尖塔的清真寺。这展示了具有西撒哈拉游牧文化人们的传统生活方式。
[Cantonese] Mauritania World Heritage Ancient Ksour of Ouadane 毛里塔尼亚世界文化遺產 瓦丹
[ Founded in the 11th and 12th centuries to serve the caravans crossing the Sahara, these trading and religious centres became focal points of Islamic culture. They have managed to preserve an urban fabric that evolved between the 12th and 16th centuries. Typically, houses with patios crowd along narrow streets around a mosque with a square minaret. They illustrate a traditional way of life centred on the nomadic culture of the people of the western Sahara.
GSI Sur piste ATAR CHINGUETTI OUADANE MAURITANIE 2014
Les autorités mauritaniennes font tout pour assurer la sécurité de leur pays, la preuve en image, convoi d'une cinquantaine de véhicules de l'armée rencontré sur la piste.
Chinguetti the library of the desert (Mauritania)
Chinguetti la bibliothèque du désert
Chinguetti (Arabic: شنقيط) is a ksour or ancient trading centre in northern Mauritania, lying on the Adrar Plateau east of Atar.
Founded in the 13th century, as the center of several trans-Saharan trade routes, this small threatened city continues to attract visitors who admire its spare architecture, exotic scenery and its ancient libraries.
The indigenous Saharan architecture of older sectors of the city feature reddish dry stone and mud-brick houses,featuring flat roofs timbered from palms. Many of the older houses feature hand-hewn doors cut from massive ancient acacia tress that have long disappeared from the surroundings. Many homes include courtyards or patios that crowd along narrow streets leading to the central mosque.
Notable buildings in the town include The Friday Mosque of Chinguetti,an ancient structure of dry stone featuring a square minaret capped with five ostrich egg finials; the former French Foreign Legion fortress; and a tall watertower. The old quarter of the Chinguetti is home to five important manuscript libraries of scientific and Qur'anic texts, with many dating from the later Middle Ages.
The Chinguetti region has been occupied for thousands of years and once was a broad savannah. Cave paintings in the nearby Amoghar Pass feature pictures of giraffes, cows and people in a green landscape quite different from the starkly beautiful sand dunes of the desert landscape found in the region today.
The city was originally founded in 777, and by the 11th century had become a trading center for a confederation of Berber tribes known as the Sanhadja Confederation. Soon after settling Chinguetti, the Sanhadja first interacted with and eventually melded with the Almavorids, the founders of the Moorish Empire which stretched from present-day Senegal to Spain. The city's stark unadorned architecture reflects the strict, Malikite Islamic beliefs of the Almavorids.
After two centuries of decline, the city was effectively re-founded in the 13th century as a fortified cross-Saharan caravan trading center connecting the Mediterranean with Sub-Saharan Africa. Although the walls of the original fortification disappeared centuries ago, many of the buildings in the old section of the city still date from this period.
For centuries the city was a principal gathering place for pilgrims of the Maghreb to gather on the way to Mecca and it became known as a holy city in its own right, especially for pilgrims unable to make the long journey to the Arab Peninsula. It also became a center of Islamic religious and scientific scholarship in West Africa. In addition to religious training, the schools of Chinguetti taught students rhetoric, law, astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. For many centuries all of Mauritania was popularly known in the Arab world as Bilad Shinqit, the land of Chinguetti. Chinguetti is sometimes said to be the seventh holiest city of Islam. There is no recognition of this claim outside of West Africa, but whatever its ranking, the city remains one of the world's most important historical sites both in terms of the history of Islam and the history of West Africa.
Although largely abandoned to the desert, the city features a series of medieval manuscript libraries without peer in West Africa, and the area around the Rue des Savants was once famous as a gathering place for scholars to debate the finer points of Islamic law. Today its deserted streets continue to reflect the urban and religious architecture of the Moorish empire as it existed in the Middle Ages.
Today, along with the cities of Ouadane, Tichitt and Oualata, Chinguetti has been designated as a World heritage site. The Friday Mosque of Chinguetti, is widely considered by Mauritanians to be the national symbol of the country. Mauritania's recently discovered offshore oilfield was named Chinguetti in its honor.
While difficult to get to, Chinguetti's stark beauty and exotic, medieval Islamic architecture make the region an interesting, if challenging, tourist destination for both the adventurous traveler and the Islamic scholar.
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El recorrido por las amplias llanuras desérticas nos muestran lugares de asentamiento prehistórico desde donde se divisa el famoso y filmado Fort Sagan. Los estromatolitos en las llanuras de Atar, nos recuerdan que fue lecho oceánico hace millones de años. Cerca de esta población, los almorávides iniciaban la conquista de Al- Andalus
Lost Ruins Of Mauritania, Africa
Before returning to Egypt for a weekend video I unveil ruins in the Sahara in the middle of nowhere. Mauritania, Africa. Google Earth baby.
Dhar Tichitt Made between 3000 BC and 500 BC according to some.
ouadane 2012 les aventures de Djouha
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Viaggio/spedizione della Mauritania alla scoperta delle oasi dell'Adrar - Partenza e ruentro dalla capitane Nouackott verso Atar - Akjuit - passo di Almojar - Cinguetti - Ouadane - Oasi di montagna - rientro verso Benjciab - costa atlantica - cape Timirist
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NASA震撼照片發布！空間站宇航員看到了地球的“眼睛” “非洲之眼”？
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近日非洲毛里塔尼亞沙漠中的環狀結構吸引了
國際空間站裡宇航員的注意力，
他們隨後太空中用相機記錄了這一壯觀奇景，
NASA在官網公佈了宇航員拍下的壯麗景觀。
這個壯觀的圓形地質特徵就是著名的“非洲之眼”，
它看上去就像是一隻眼睛，
只不過這只“眼睛”的直徑高達近50千米，
它位於非洲毛里塔尼亞撒哈拉沙漠中。
此前它被認為可能是隕石坑的產物，
但是在經過進一步研究後，
它被認為是由一個對稱的隆起造成的
在宇航員拍攝的這張照片中，
左下角的箭頭標註了幾條可見的斷層可見，
意味著曾經連續的地層已經分開
大約有370萬人生活在非洲毛里塔尼亞，
但是大部分人口都居住在大西洋沿岸，
而這個壯觀的“非洲之眼”結構距離海岸大約500公里，
也沒有多少人居住。
從早期的太空任務開始非洲之眼就引起了人們的關注，
它在茫茫撒哈拉沙漠中格外顯眼，
在其他沙漠中可沒有類似的壯觀的特徵。
但至於“非洲之眼”為什麼會這麼大、這麼圓，
仍然是一個地質謎團。
通過宇航員們拍下的照片，
我們得以再一次觀摩毛里塔尼亞壯觀的“非洲之眼”奇觀，
它是如此的震撼人心，
讓我們不得不由衷感嘆大自然造物之力如此偉大。
Mauritania 4: Chinguetti y Ouadane santas del Islam
El Valle Blanco, el oasis de Tergit, la 7ª ciudad Santa del Islam (Chinguetti) con su Mezquita (símbolo mauritano) y Ouadane, reconstruida sobre sus ruinas y con yacimientos prehistóricos. Todo un gozo para el naturalista y el antropólogo.