Séguédine is a town in central eastern Niger, lying at the far northern tip of the Kaouar escarpment, an inhabited oasis in the midst of the Sahara Desert. It is a Commune of Bilma Department, Agadez Region.
Séguédine
Seguedine | |
|---|---|
Commune | |
 Séguédine, 1989. | |
  Séguédine | |
| Coordinates: 20°11′31″N 12°58′3″E / 20.19194°N 12.96750°E | |
| Country | Niger |
| Region | Agadez Region |
| Department | Bilma Department |
| Commune | Séguédine |
| Elevation | 459 m (1,509 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 485 |
| [1] | |
While isolated in modern Niger, it once lay on the important central soudan route of the Trans-Saharan trade which linked coastal Libya and the Fezzan to the Kanem-Bornu Empire near Lake Chad. Its population is made up primarily of traditionally sedentary Kanuri people, as well as semi-nomadic Tuareg and Tubu people.
References edit
- ^ Seguedine, Niger Page. Falling Rain Genomics, Inc. 1996-2004
- Samuel Decalo. Historical Dictionary of Niger. Scarecrow Press, London and New Jersey (1979). ISBN 0-8108-1229-0
- Jolijn Geels. Niger. Bradt London and Globe Pequot New York (2006). ISBN 1-84162-152-8.
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