The western Sanhaja were divided into several tribes-the Gazzula and the Lamta in the Draa valley and the foothills of the Anti-Atlas range, further south, encamped in the western Sahara desert, were the Massufa, the Lamtuna and the Banu Warith, and most southerly of all, the Gudala ( or Judala ), in littoral Mauritania down to the borderlands of the Senegal river.

From the year 1053, the Almoravids began to spread their religious way to the Berber areas of the Sahara, and to the regions south of the desert.

* The Atlas range — orthographically distinct from the rest of the continent, being unconnected with and separated from the south by a depressed and desert area ( the Sahara ).

The arid region, the Sahara — the largest desert in the world, covering — extends from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.

** By road across the Sahara desert to Libya

Paleodeserts are large sand seas now inactive because they are stabilized by vegetation, some extending beyond the present margins of core deserts, such as the Sahara, the largest hot desert.

Without the topographic channel that permits the Nile to flow across the Sahara, Egypt would be entirely desert.

Its ancestor may have migrated from eastern to northern Africa and then to its current range with the development of the Sahara desert.

By this stage the explorers had passed the southern boundary of the desert, and from then on Henry had one of his wishes fulfilled: the Portuguese had circumvented the Muslim land-based trade routes across the western Sahara Desert, and slaves and gold began arriving in Portugal.

These are spoken in the arid zone bordering, and considerably within, the Sahara desert of west and central Niger in the Tillaberi, Tahoua, Dosso, Maradi, Agadez and Zinder regions.

Wan Caza sand dunes in the Sahara desert region of Fezzan

Another significant arrival around this time was a group of puritan Miknasa Berber rebels from Ifriqiya, who went on to establish the settlement of Sijilmassa ( in southeast Morocco ) and open trade across the Sahara desert with the gold-producing Ghana Empire of west Africa.

The geography of Morocco spans from the Atlantic Ocean, to mountainous areas, to the Sahara ( desert ).

* Sahara with Michael Palin ( Travel 2001 / 02 ; Programme release 2002 ): in which he trekked around and through the world's largest desert.

As the Sahara dried after 2000 BCE, the north of Niger became the desert it is today, with settlements and trade routes clinging to the Air in the north, the Kaouar and shore of Lake Chad in the west, and ( apart for a scattering of oases ) most people living along what is now the southern border with Nigeria and the southwest of the country.

North Africa enjoyed a fertile climate during the subpluvial era ; what is now the Sahara supported a savanna type of ecosystem, with elephant, giraffe, and other grassland and woodland animals now typical of the Sahel region south of the desert.

the highlands of the central Sahara beyond the Libyan desert ,... in the great massifs of the Tibesti and the Hoggar, the mountaintops, today bare rock, were covered at this period with forests of oak and walnut, lime, alder and elm.

Camel caravan transport was historically important in the Sahara desert and Sahel regions which cover most of the north.

Prehistoric inhabitants adjusting to the encroaching desert were widely scattered by the third millennium BC, when the desiccation of the Sahara began.

The northern part of the river, known as the Niger bend, is an important area because it is the closest major river and source of water to that part of the Sahara desert.

A careful study of Classical writings on the interior of the Sahara begins with Ptolemy, who mentions two rivers in the desert: the " Gir " and farther south, the " Ni-Gir ".

As indicated by its hyphenated name, Nilo-Saharan is a family of the African interior, including the greater Nile basin and the central Sahara desert.

The distribution of the families may reflect ancient water courses in a green Sahara, when the desert was more habitable than it is today.

The island provided a serviceable stand-in for locations as varied as the Sahara desert and a British cricket pitch.

The Sahara desert ecoregion, as defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ), includes the hyper-arid center of the Sahara, between 18 ° and 30 ° N. It is one of several desert and xeric shrubland ecoregions that cover the northern portion of the African continent.

There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

Yusuf ibn Tashfin had in the meantime brought what is now known as Morocco, Western Sahara and Mauretania into complete subjection.

Characteristic of the Sahara is the date palm, which flourishes where other vegetation can scarcely maintain existence, while in the semidesert regions the acacia, from which gum arabic is obtained, is abundant.

Recent linguistic research suggests that all of Africa's major language groupings south of the Sahara Desert ( except Khoisan, which is not considered a valid genetic grouping anyway ), i. e. the Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger – Congo phyla, originated in prehistoric times in a narrow band between Lake Chad and the Nile Valley.

N ' Djamena, the capital, is located more than 1, 100 kilometers northeast of the Atlantic Ocean ; Abéché, a major city in the east, lies 2, 650 kilometers from the Red Sea ; and Faya-Largeau, a much smaller but strategically important center in the north, is in the middle of the Sahara Desert, 1, 550 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea.

The summit of this formation — as well as the highest point in the Sahara Desert — is Emi Koussi, a dormant volcano that reaches 3, 414 meters above sea level.

The seventh largest lake in the world ( and the fourth largest in Africa ), Lake Chad is located in the sahelian zone, a region just south of the Sahara Desert.

Due to its proximity to the Sahara, most of the Cape Verde islands are dry, but on islands with high mountains and farther away from the coast, by orography, the humidity is much higher, giving a rainforest habitat, very degraded by the strong human presence.

The Sahara is currently expanding south at a rate of up to 48 kilometers per year.

To the south, in what is now the Sahara Desert, nomadic hunters and herders roamed a large, well-watered savanna that was abundant in game and provided pastures for their livestock.

Kenji Sahara ( 佐原 健二 Sahara Kenji, born Tadashi Ishihara ) ( born 14 May 1932 ) is a Japanese actor.

The natural hazard that occurs in Liberia is a dust-laden harmattan wind that blows from the Sahara ( December to March ).

* Libya was also was one the main supporters of the Polisario Front in the former Spanish Sahara – a nationalist group dedicated to ending Spanish colonialism in the region, and from 1975, to combatting the Moroccan occupation of what is now known as Western Sahara.

The Mauritanian military is currently involved in Operation Enduring Freedom-Trans Sahara.

Eight thousand years ago, south of the great mountain ranges in what is now the Sahara Desert, a vast savanna supported Neolithic hunters and herders whose culture flourished until the region began to desiccate as a result of climatic changes after 4000 BC.

A defining theme of Moroccan history and foreign policy is the bitter struggle over Western Sahara.

This is a list of the extreme points of Morocco, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location ( excluding the disputed Western Sahara area ).

There is a microwave radio relay to Gibraltar, Spain and the Western Sahara.

The major issue in Morocco's foreign relations is its claim to Western Sahara.