Map Of Trans-saharan Trade Routes

Part of the Sahara A to Z series

See too:
'V' is for Vintage Sahara Maps
Sahara – Blanks on the Map
Maps of the Sahara
I is for IGN and their Sahara Maps

I came beyond this old French map of the Saharan merchandise routes from 1889 [full-size source]. As ever, it'southward interesting to see where was prominent and so and what has come since. Old spellings and some names differ.

Not a lot of people know that an before name for Marrakech was 'Maroc' or Kingdom of morocco. Once this area was all known as 'Mauretania' – the Land of the Moors (Blacks) from which all these names derive. Mogador is today's Essaouira.
Other well-known Moroccan towns are present, as well as the 52-days road to Timbuktu from Zagora or Sijilmassa (Rissani), all depicted with other names.
By this time most camel trade took the western route to Goulimim (Wadi Substantive), which explains the vestiges of the tourist camel market place there today. The original site is really here.

Cap Juby (today's Tarfaya) we'll be hearing more about soon, only inland from here a tough road from Tindouf led to Taoudeni and also Timbuktu.
Southwest from Tindouf another track leads to Islamic republic of mauritania, the one-time colonial overland route to Dakar mid-concluding century, as driven past this nutter.

Islamic republic of mauritania has many familiar places like Atar, Chinguetti (right), Ouadane (left, where nosotros coninued east beyond the Majabat for Algeria in 2006) besides as Oujeft leading to the ruins of Ksar el Barka, Tidjikja, Tichit, and Oualata for Timbuktu. Only no Nouadhibou (Cap Blanc) or Nouadhibou (Tiourourt) nonetheless, far less Zouerat. And no Dakar back and so; St Louis was the colonial majuscule of French West Africa.

In Republic of mali Timbuktu is central, with trade routes leading due north via Araouane, or Tim Missao well (left) in Algeria where nosotros stopped in 2006 and 1989 (right). No Tamanrasset or Djanet – the two biggest towns in southern Algeria today, but In Salah, Amguid and Temassinin (Bordj Omar Driss) are present.

In Libya little seems to have changed: Ghat and Ghadames are there, every bit well as Germa (Ubari)  and Murzuk on the route for Lake Republic of chad via Bilma (left). To the east the oases making up Kufra lead downwards to the Ounianga lakes in northern Chad. And east of there is the Darb al Arbain (Route of Forty Days) from El Fasher in Sudan, via Selima beyond the sand canvas (right) towards Kharga and Asyut on the Nile.

Map Of Trans-saharan Trade Routes,

Source: https://sahara-overland.com/2017/09/22/old-saharan-trade-routes-map/

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