Chinguetti (Mauritania)
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Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
שינגטי (מאוריטניה)
Name (Latin)
Chinguetti (Mauritania)
Other forms of name
Shinguiti (Mauritania)
Shinqīṭ (Mauritania)
Chinguitty (Mauritania)
Coordinates
-12.35 -12.35 20.45 20.45 (gooearth )
W0122142 W0122142 N0202707 N0202707 (geonames )
Associated country
Mauritania
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 20°27ʹ07ʺN 012°21ʹ42ʺW)
- Mauritania, the vanishing oasis, 2007:map (Shinguiti)
- al-Shiʻr al-Shinqīṭī fī ... 1995:p. 11 (Shinqīṭ)
- World Atlas (Chinguetti, Mauritania)
- Chinguitty Bank. Rapport annuel, 1996:t.p.
Wikipedia description:
Chinguetti is a department of the Adrar Region in Mauritania. The capital lies at Chinguetti, an ex-Middle Ages center for trade which is considered to be a ghost town. The other village in this mostly desert-area department is Ain Savra.
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