Marendet
Marendet is a village and archaeological site in central Niger. It was an important stop on a 9th and 10th century trade route linking Wagadu to Egypt through Gao. It was also a source of copper. The archaeological site is now at risk from erosion and looting.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 652 residents
- Description: village in Niger
- Also known as: “Maranda”, “Marandat”, “Marandet”, and “Marendett”
Marendet
- Categories: archaeological site and locality
- Location: Agadez, Niger, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
16.37744° or 16° 22′ 39″ northLongitude
7.43371° or 7° 26′ 1″ eastPopulation
652Elevation
485 metres (1,591 feet)Open location code
7F899CGM+XFOpenStreetMap ID
node 11638798107OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2596707Wikidata ID
Q15057684
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“Marendet” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Marendet”
- Chinese: “馬連德”
- Dutch: “Marendet”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مارانديت”
- French: “Maranda”
- French: “Marandat”
- French: “Marandet”
- Fulah: “Marendet”
- German: “Maranda”
- German: “Marandat”
- German: “Marandet”
- German: “Marendet”
- German: “Marendett”
- Italian: “Marandet”
- Turkish: “Marandet”
- “Marandet”
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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 “Marendet”. Photo: Jacques Taberlet, CC BY-SA 3.0.