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distance trans-Saharan trade. The salt pan is located 857 km south of Sijilmasa (in Morocco), 787 km north-northwest of Timbuktu (in Mali) and 731 km north-northeast of Oualata (in Mauritania).

Early Arabic sources

The Taghaza mines are first mentioned by name (as Taghara) in around 1275 by the geographer al Qazwini who spent most of his

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