Azougui
Ancient city · Mauritania
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 20.566, -13.105
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Based on the object's type in Wikidata.
History
Azougui was a town in north-western Mauritania, lying on the Adrar Plateau, north-west of Atar. In the eleventh century it was the first capital of the Almoravid dynasty, who conquered a territory stretching from the Ghana Empire to Morocco and the Iberian Peninsula.