trans-Saharan
- a word derived from Sahara.
Example Sentences
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Djenné is one of the oldest towns in sub-Saharan Africa and served as a market center and an important link in the trans-Saharan gold trade.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
The economic health and longevity of the Songhai Empire depended on the secure and smooth operation of the trans-Saharan trade in goods across North Africa.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Although perhaps most pronounced in West Africa, the altered dynamics of trans-Saharan trade in enslaved people in the eighteenth century were also apparent in North Africa.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Askia the Great’s successors could not maintain control of the empire, however, and in the sixteenth century, Songhai was defeated by Saadi forces from Morocco seeking to gain control of the trans-Saharan caravan routes.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
At Ouargla it rested for a week; and there, renewing its supplies, penetrated southwards to survey the desert country of the Touaregs for the construction of the oft-mooted trans-Saharan railway.
From The Truants by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
