Ksar el Barka
كصر البركة | |
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Commune and town | |
 Ksar-el-Barka in 1908 | |
  Ksar el Barka Location in Mauritania | |
| Coordinates: 18°24′0″N 12°13′0″W / 18.40000°N 12.21667°W | |
| Country |  Mauritania |
| Region | Tagant |
Ksar el Barka (Arabic: كصر البركة) are ruins in Mauritania.[1] It was established in 1690 by the Kounta, who were from Ouadane and fleeing increasingly desertification.[2] At the time there was a Black African farming community there, that the Kounta leader Muhammad Talib Wuld Bajid taxed to support religious scholars and warriors.[3]
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References
- ↑ Cândida, Vale; Pimm, Stuart; Brito, José (2015). "Overlooked Mountain Rock Pools in Deserts Are Critical Local Hotspots of Biodiversity". PLOS ONE. 10 (2): e0118367. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1018367V. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0118367. PMC 4340953. PMID 25714751.
- ↑ Sidatt, M. "Introduction to the History of the Tagant Plateau". Tagant. Universidad Complutense of Madrid.
- ↑ Webb, James (1995). Desert frontier : ecological and economic change along the Western Sahel, 1600-1850. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 51. ISBN 0299143309. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
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