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Tenere is a desert region in the south central Sahara, Niger. The huge sand dunes of Temet and magical scenery are said to make Tenere the most beautiful desert in the world. The Tuareg word tenere meaning desert, translated into Arabic, gave the Sahara its name. A dune in the Egyptian desert Desert in California mz_maco_23q@hotmail. ...
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Arabic (العربية) is a Semitic language, closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ...
The desert is composed of sand dunes and sand flats. A major dinosaur cemetery lies at its western edge with a large number of fossils, many covered by sand, spread over 150 km. This article is about the sand formations, for other meanings see Dune (disambiguation) Mesquite Flat Dunes in Death Valley National Park In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand built by eolian (wind-related) processes. ...
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Tenere's main city is the town of Agadez, in the shadow of the Aïr Mountains. There are also various oasis settlements based on salt mining. Agadez is the largest city in northern Niger, lying in the Sahara and is the capital of Aïr, one of the traditional Tuareg federations. ...
The Aïr Mountains (also known as the Air Massif or Azbine) is a triangular massif, located in northern Niger, within the Sahara desert. ...
Oasis in the Libyan part of the Sahara In geography, an oasis is an isolated area of vegetation in a desert, typically surrounding a spring or similar water source. ...
The desert is also known for the Tree of Tenere, once the most remote in the world. Incredibly, in 1973, a truck driver hit the tree – the only one for several hundred kilometres – and it was replaced by a metal sculpture, the original now being in the Niger National Museum. LArbre du Ténéré, known in English as Tree of Ténéré, was a solitary acacia, of either Acacia raddiana or Acacia tortilus, that was once considered the most isolated tree on Earth — the only one in more than 400km. ...
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Population
The inhabitants of Tenere region are largely Tuareg of Ayr and Azawagh. Three Tuareg federations, Kel Ayr, Iwillimidan Kel Denneg and Kel Gres ruled the area until the arrival of the French colonial army, which occupied the land. Other ethnic groups dwelling in Tenere are the Hausa, Songhay, Wodaabe or (Peul Bororo), the Moors, and Tebu. For other uses of the word, see Tuareg (disambiguation). ...
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Azawagh is a region in the middle Sahel, Niger. ...
The Hausa are a people of northern Nigeria and southeastern Niger. ...
The Songhai are an ethnic group living in western Africa. ...
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In 1960 the Tuareg territory become part of the independent republic of Niger. It has been divided between seven departments.
Major cities and villages of Tenere:
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