** Mandara Sultanate since 1715 ( replacing Wandala kingdom ); 1902 Part of Cameroon

The larger, northern portion of the basin is bounded within Chad by the Tibesti Mountains in the northwest, the Ennedi Plateau in the northeast, the Ouaddaï Highlands in the east along the border with Sudan, the Guéra Massif in central Chad, and the Mandara Mountains along Chad's southwestern border with Cameroon.

It is delimited in the north by the Guéra Massif, in the south by highlands 250 kilometers south of the border with Central African Republic, and in the southwest by the Mandara Mountains.

Instead of waiting for Barth to return, on 19 July, Vogel joined a steamboat expedition heading up the Niger and Benue Rivers to the Mandara Mountains where he was imprisoned by the king of Mora who had received a message about the suspicious stranger from Bornu.

* Mandara Mountains

It was from Kuka that Denham, against the wish of Oudney and Clapperton, accompanied a slave-raiding expedition into the Mandara Mountains south of Bornu.

The Mandara Mountains, which run roughly north-south at the province's Nigerian border, are irregular in that they are volcanic, composed mostly of crystalline and metamorphic rock and granite.

in addition, the area between the Vina and Mbere Rivers and the Mayo Deo valley is hydromorphic, while the volcanic Mandara and Atlantika Mountains, other high points in the province, and the Mayo Oulo valley are composed of relatively young soils high in raw mineral content.

The North's third significant land feature is the Mandara Mountains and their southern extension, the Atlantika Mountains, the likely results of tectonic activity.

North of Garoua and in the Mandara Mountains, where large populations of non-Muslim ( often known collectively by the derogatory name Kirdi ) were forced to flee years ago, density peaks at 50 to 100 people per km².

In the Mandara Mountains, these circular plots follow the slope of the mountains in terraces.

Those peoples who were unwilling to submit to Fulbe supremacy were forced to flee, many of them to the forbidding Mandara and Atlantika Mountains.

The Mandara Mountains looking north-east from Jimeta / Yola.

The Mandara Mountains ( Monts Mandara ) are a volcanic range extending about 200km ( about 125 mi ) along the northern part of the Cameroon-Nigeria border, from the Benue River in the south () to the north-west of Maroua in the north ().

The Mofu ethnic group lives in the Mandara Mountains.

They live in the Far North Province in the Mandara Mountains.

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# It was on this day when Lord Vishnu ended the ever increasing terror of the Asuras ( Demons ) by finishing them off and burying their heads under the Mandara Parvata.

The Puranas state that Dhanavantari emerged from the ' Ocean of Milk ' and appeared with the pot of nectar during the story of the Samudra or Sagar manthan whilst the ocean was being churned by the devas and asuras, using the Mandara mountain and the serpent Vasuki.

And it was protected with gateways looking like the clouds and high as the Mandara mountains.

Mandara was well organised, however, and would not be an easy prize.

No one expected the Mandara counterattack, which was launched from nearby Mora.

Kurma Avatar of Vishnu, below Mount Mandara, with Vasuki wrapped around it, during Samudra manthan, the churning of the ocean of milk.

* The serpent king Vasuki helped the gods to recover amrita, the elixir of immortality, from the Ocean of Milk by serving as the cord they wrapped around Mount Mandara in order to churn up the depths of the ocean.

Kurma Avatar of Vishnu, below Mount Mandara, with Vasuki wrapped around it, during Samudra manthan, the churning of the ocean of milk.

In Rajasuya sacrifice of king Yudhishtra, the kings from northern countries lying between Mount Meru ( Pamirs ) and Mandara & located around river Sailoda with plenty of Kichaka bamboos, had brought as tribute, heaps of gold raised from underneath the earth by ants.

It flows down from the Adamawa Plateau and is enlarged by the Mayo Rey, the Mayo Kebi ( which flows into the area from Chad ), the Mayo Louti ( which flows down from the Mandara mountains ) and other rivers.

The Biu – Mandara or Central Chadic languages of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon.

Numerous parasitic cones extend east-west across Kilimanjaro ; some are located near the Mandara Hut ( Maundi Crater offers a fine view point ), while others lie just north of the Shira Route.

In the Samudra manthan chapter of the Puranas, Shesha loosens Mount Mandara for it to be used as a churning rod by the Asuras and Devas to churn the ocean of milk in the heavens in order to make Soma ( or Amrita ), the divine elixir of immortality.

In a story from the Puranas, Shesha loosens Mount Mandara, to enable it to be used in the churning of the ocean by the devas and asuras.

After declaring a truce with their foes ( Asuras ), Indra and his Devas together with the Asuras, use the serpent Vasuki as a churning rope and the mount Mandara as the churning staff.

Hotel guests use rooms featuring Italian furnishings, a Mandara Spa and fitness center, three themed swimming pools, and dining including the Bice Restaurant, Trattoria del Porto, Mama Della's Ristorante, and more.

The branches of Biu – Mandara go either by names or by letters and numbers in an outline format.

** Wandala ( Mandara ) ( A. 4 )

It rises in the Adamawa Plateau of northern Cameroon, from where it flows west, and through the town of Garoua and Lagdo Reservoir, into Nigeria south of the Mandara mountains, and through Jimeta, Ibi and Makurdi before meeting the Niger at Lokoja.

Besides the variety of accommodation under one roof, this amazing 800-acre " Resort-within-a-City " landmark also features the Balinese-inspired Mandara Spa, a 24-hour fitness centre, a theme park with the largest manmade surf beach, extreme sports and wildlife interactive zoo, an upscale mega shopping and entertainment mall with over 700 specialty stores, a medical centre, educational facilities and a multitude of distinctive business and leisure facilities.

: III. E. 6 Mandara, Gamergu

Gandhara is the name of an ancient Hindu kingdom from the Vedic period and its capital city located between the Hindukush and Sulaiman Mountains ( mountains of Solomon ), although Kandahar in modern times and the ancient Gandhara are not geographically identical.

In c. 1801 BC, the powerful kingdom of Elam, which straddled important trade routes across the Zagros Mountains, invaded the Mesopotamian plain.

The birthplace of the Asturian kingdom was the western and central territory of the Cantabrian Mountains part of the Gallaecia, particularly the Picos de Europa and the central area of Asturias.

; Pinnath Gelin: Hills in the west of the kingdom, between the White Mountains and Anfalas ; the name means " green ridges ".

In 2210 Thorin I founded a kingdom in the Grey Mountains to the north of Mirkwood.

For a time an exile kingdom was founded in the northern Blue Mountains, but Thráin II was driven to wandering the wilderness by his Ring, the last of the Dwarven Rings not yet taken by Sauron or consumed by dragons.

In the twenty-first century, a remnant tribe of such Northmen calling itself the Éothéod moved from the valleys of Anduin to the north west of Mirkwood, clearing out what remained of the recently defeated witch kingdom of Angmar, east of the Misty Mountains.

To the south and west of Dorthonion were the Echoriath ( Encircling Mountains ), which surrounded the hidden kingdom of Gondolin.

In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Eregion or Hollin was a kingdom of the Noldorin Elves in Eriador during the Second Age, located near the West Gate of Moria under the shadow of the Hithaeglir ( Misty Mountains ).

In the 8th century a consolidated Alan kingdom, referred to in sources of the period as Alania, emerged in the northern Caucasus Mountains, roughly in the location of the latter-day Circassia and the modern North Ossetia – Alania.

Under his rule, Armenian power was at its apogee: his kingdom extended from Isauria to the Amanus Mountains ( now Nur Mountains in Turkey ).

Around the year 2500 of the Third Age, Grór son of Dáin I founded the Iron Hills as an independent kingdom after the Dwarves were exiled from the Grey Mountains to the west because of attacks by Cold-drakes seeking the vast wealth of the mountains, which had resulted in the death of the king Dáin I.

The kingdom was located in the Semien Mountains region and the Dembia region-situated to the north of Lake Tana and south of the Tekezé River.

As a result of this battle, the areas of the kingdom became significantly smaller and included now only the region of the Semien Mountains.

The forces of the Jewish kingdom managed to conquer the area south of the kingdom and strengthened their defenses in the Semien Mountains.

East of the Lion Men's kingdom are the Magnetic Mountains, where Ming the Merciless established a new base of operations after he was defeated and removed from Mongo's throne.

At the same time, the Magyars settled in the Carpathian basin, west of the Carpathian Mountains, and eventually consolidated into the Hungarian kingdom, which included Transylvania.

Umayyads has extended their Empire far east and west and reached modern day Spain and Portugal in the late 7th century, and within three years, the Iberian peninsula was occupied, with the exception of the Cantabrian Mountains ( future kingdom of the Asturias ) in the northwest, where high mountains formed a sort of natural fortress.

In the 18th century, Nuba Mountains became home to the kingdom of Taqali that controlled the hills of the mountains until their defeat by Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad.

* Avion-an airbone kingdom located in the highest peaks of the Mystic Mountains.

Many centuries later Tashkurgan became the capital of Sarikol kingdom ( 色勒库尔 ), a kingdom of the Pamir Mountains, and later of Qiepantuo ( 朅盘陀 ) under the Persians.