People / group
Tuareg
The Tuareg are a Berber-speaking, traditionally nomadic people of the central and western Sahara and the Sahel. They controlled important desert routes and oases and at times raided or dominated the cities of the Niger bend. They seized Timbuktu from the Mali Empire in 1433, and their pressure features in the histories of the Songhai Empire and the Kanem-Bornu Empire.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Tuareg. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/tuareg
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