Araouane
Sign in to saveAraouane or Arawan is a small village in the Malian part of the Sahara Desert, lying north of Timbuktu on the caravan route to the salt-mining centre of Taoudenni. The village once served as an entrepôt in the trans-Saharan trade.
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Araouane
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mali
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Mali
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 25px Mali
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Taoudénit Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Cercle
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Araouane Cercle
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Mali
- Located in
- Timbuktu Cercle
- Elevation
- +288
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
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Araouane or Arawan is a small village in the Malian part of the Sahara Desert, lying north of Timbuktu on the caravan route to the salt-mining centre of Taoudenni. The village once served as an entrepôt in the trans-Saharan trade.
==History== thumb|right|305px|Trade routes of the Western Sahara Desert c. 1000–1500. Goldfields are indicated by light brown shading: Bambuk, Bure, Lobi, and Akan. Between the 16th and the 19th centuries, Araouane acted as an entrepôt in the important trans-Sahara trade. In particular, the town of Araouane served as a storage depot for the merchants of Timbuktu to store their goods as they were in the process of preparation to resell to northern Saharan towns like Tuat and Ghadames. Under the Songhai Empire and Pashalik of Timbuktu, Araouane was governed similarly to Timbuktu; under a system of "Judgeship" held by erudite scholars with sweeping judicial, legislative, and executive powers.