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Assodé

Assodé was a town in the in what is now northern . Founded around the eleventh century, it was long the most important Tuareg town, benefiting from trans-Saharan trade, and declining with it from the eighteenth century.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: abandoned village in Niger
  • Also known as: “Assode” and “Assodel”

Assodé

Latitude
18.45521° or 18° 27′ 19″ north
Longitude
8.60111° or 8° 36′ 4″ east
Elevation
736 metres (2,415 feet)
Open location code
7FCCFJ42+3C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8193978629
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
2447467
Wiki­data ID
Q2868264
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Xhosa—“Assodé” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Assodé”
  • Dutch: “Assodé”
  • Finnish: “Assodé”
  • French: “Assodé”
  • German: “Assodé”
  • Hausa: “Assodé”
  • Japanese: “アソデ”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Assodé”
  • Romanian: “Assode”
  • Romanian: “Assodé”
  • Spanish: “Assodé”
  • Xhosa: “Assodé”
  • “Assodé”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Assodé”. Photo: Jacques Taberlet, CC BY-SA 3.0.