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Trans-Saharan trade is trade between sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa that requires travel across the Sahara. Though this trade began in prehistoric...

The trans-Saharan slave trade, also known as the Arab slave trade, was a slave trade in which slaves were mainly transported across the Sahara. Most were...

The Trans-Saharan Railway was a project conducted by France to build a rail line south through Algeria to sub-Saharan Africa. Its original intended use...

The Trans-Saharan seaway was a sea in the present-day Sahara in the Late Cretaceous period in present-day Libya, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria. It varied in...

The Trans-Saharan gas pipeline (TSGP; also known as NIGAL pipeline and Trans-African gas pipeline) is a planned natural gas pipeline from Nigeria to Algeria...

The Trans-Sahara Highway or TAH 2, formally the Trans-Saharan Road Corridor (TSR), and also known as the African Unity Road, is a transnational infrastructure...

complex web of commerce and cultural exchange. In West Africa, the trans-Saharan trade routes connected the rich gold-producing regions around the Niger...

Niger, and Tunisia (1881). By the beginning of the 20th century, the trans-Saharan trade had clearly declined because goods were moved through more modern...

were in much of the rest of the ancient and medieval world. When the trans-Saharan slave trade, Red Sea slave trade, Indian Ocean slave trade and Atlantic...

Sub-Saharan Africa or Subsahara is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara. These include Central Africa, East Africa...

African and trans-Saharan slave trade. Since Ancient times, the territory of modern Libya was a transit area for the slave trade from Sub-Saharan Africa across...

further by sending expeditions south to consolidate control of the trans-Saharan trade routes leading to Kanem–Bornu. By 1807 he was able to force all...

then from mainland Africa, initially from Arab slave traders via the Trans-Saharan slave trade from Libya, and then directly from the African West coast...

Slaves were trafficked to the Ottoman Empire via three main routes: the Trans-Saharan slave trade via Egypt and Libya; the Red Sea slave trade across the...

trafficked to al-Andalus from the South across the Sahara desert via the Trans-Saharan slave trade. Slaves in al-Andalus were used in a similar manner as in...

from around 500 BC have been excavated in West Africa, suggesting that Trans-Saharan trade networks had been established by this date. From 3500 BC, nomes...

The Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP) is an interagency plan by the United States government, combining efforts by both civil and military...

Enduring Freedom – Trans Sahara (OEF-TS), is the military operation conducted by the United States and partner nations in the Saharan and Sahel regions...

From 1300 the Trans-Saharan trade routes were used for trade, travel, and scholarship. Much of what scholars know of the Trans-Saharan trade routes comes...

was occupied by the Lohron or Kulango people and prospered from the trans-Saharan gold trade, reaching its height between the 14th and 17th centuries...