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Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata

UNESCO World Heritage Centre, 1996. UNESCO World Heritage List.

World Heritage listing of four caravan towns founded in the 11th and 12th centuries to serve the trans-Saharan routes and developed between the 12th and 16th centuries; inscribed in 1996 under criteria (iii), (iv) and (v).

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Cited for Ouadane, the nearest town, founded in the 11th and 12th centuries for the Saharan caravans and inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1996.

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UNESCO World Heritage Centre (1996). Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata. UNESCO World Heritage List. https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/750/
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