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Assodé
Abandoned village · Niger
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 18.456, 8.601
Why it was abandoned
📉 Economic decline
Detected automatically from the text: Founded around the eleventh century, it was long the most important Tuareg town, benefiting from trans-Saharan trade, and declining with it from the eighteenth century.
History
Assodé was a town in the Aïr Mountains in what is now northern Niger. Founded around the eleventh century, it was long the most important Tuareg town, benefiting from trans-Saharan trade, and declining with it from the eighteenth century. It was abandoned soon after being sacked by the Tuareg forces during the Kaocen revolt of 1917, although many of its buildings are still reasonably well preserved. It remains a tourist destination.