Aoudaghost
Sign in to savethumb|right|305px|Trade routes of the Western Sahara c. 1000-1500. Goldfields are indicated by light brown shading: Bambouk|Bambuk, Bure, Lobi, and Akan. Aoudaghost also transliterated as Awadaghust, Awdughast, Awdaghusht, Awdaghost, and Awdhaghurst () is a former Berber town in Hodh El Gharbi, Mauritania. It was an important oasis town at the southern end of a trans-Saharan caravan route that is mentioned in a number of early Arabic manuscripts. The archaeological ruins at Tegdaoust in southern Mauritania are thought to be the remains of the medieval town.
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Place details
- Locality
- Noudache قرية نودش
- Region
- Hodh El Gharbi الحوض الغربي
- Country
- Mauritanie موريتانيا
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Aoudaghost
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Site of medieval town
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mauritania
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Mauritania
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 25px Mauritania
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Mauritania
- Located in
- Hodh El Gharbi
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Aoudaghost.png..jpg
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Article
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Description
- Archaeology
- In fiction
- World Heritage Status
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|305px|Trade routes of the Western Sahara c. 1000-1500. Goldfields are indicated by light brown shading: Bambouk|Bambuk, Bure, Lobi, and Akan. Aoudaghost also transliterated as Awadaghust, Awdughast, Awdaghusht, Awdaghost, and Awdhaghurst () is a former Berber town in Hodh El Gharbi, Mauritania. It was an important oasis town at the southern end of a trans-Saharan caravan route that is mentioned in a number of early Arabic manuscripts. The archaeological ruins at Tegdaoust in southern Mauritania are thought to be the remains of the medieval town.
==History==