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Agadez
Agadez, formerly spelled Agades, is the largest city in central Niger, with a population of 88,569 (2005 census). It lies in the Sahara and is the capital of Aïr, one of the traditional Tuareg–Berber federations. The city is also the capital of the Agadez Region. As of 2011, the urban commune had a total population of 124,324 people.
History
The city was founded before the fourteenth century and gradually became the most important Tuareg city, supplanting Assodé, by growing around trans-Saharan trade. The city still sees the arrival of caravans, bringing salt from Bilma.
In 1449, Agadez became a sultanate, while around 1500 it was conquered by the Songhai Empire. At this point, the city had a population of around 30,000 people and was a key passage for the medieval caravans trading between the West African cities of Kano (and as a result Hausa language is the traditional lingua franca between different ethnic groups in the city, especially in the area of trade, religion and administration) and Timbuktu and the North African oases of Ghat, Ghadames, and Tripoli, on the Mediterranean shore. Decline set in after the Moroccan invasion, and the population sank to less than 10,000.
Agadez Region
Agadez is an administrative Region in Niger. At 667,799 square kilometres (257,839 sq mi), Agadez is the largest subdivision in Africa. The capital of the department is Agadez.
Description and people
The Agadez Region represents 52% of the total area of Niger, the largest of its seven regions. Despite its size, Agadez is sparsely populated. Its 321,639 inhabitants account for only 2.9% of the total population of Niger with a population density of 0.19 inhabitants per square kilometre (0.5/sq mi). The region includes the vast Ténéré portion of the Sahara Desert, dune seas like the Erg of Bilma, and the mountains of the Aïr. Much of its population comprises nomadic or semi-nomadic peoples including the Tuareg, Toubou, Wadoobe Fula. There are populations of settled Kanuri (in the east), Hausa, and Songhay in the towns and oasies.
Economy
Traversed for centuries by the Trans Saharan trade, the oasis towns of the Aïr and the eastern Kaouar Cliffs are known for their gardens, salt manufacture, and date cultivation. In the late 1990s, tourism became a large industry here, and the uranium town of Arlit provides some 20% of the foreign exchange for the country. Tuareg insurgencies against the Niger government in the 1990s and mid 2000s and drought in the 1970s, 80s, and 2002 have led to humanitarian crises and damaged the region's economy.
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by Mars Volta
Agadez
by: Mars VoltaI should have known you?d always scratch that itch
When you asked me for safe passage on my shoulders where we slid
And just before you laid dead weight upon its shores
I stung you in the face for that?s the nature of my core
Because I got distance, don?t let it close
Gotta let me know, you just got to let me know
Because, forget which way is out now
Gotta let me know, you just got to let me know
I?m nowhere near this place you wear
It?s unforgivable, it knows that I am visible
Broken mirrors and useless prayer
This lock is healing me, you know you came so willingly
Waiting is a vessel that will take me to
Love, it knows no order when you taste the truth
Because I?m trapped in this cement husk
Gotta let me go, you just got to let me go
Because I paid with own touch now
I brought a little cut, there is blood for every month
In the way you used to call her wicked answers
Time is a plague, there?s no time in this place
If you don't, if you don?t let me go
Heaven?s made a cesspool of us all
I?m nowhere near this place you wear
It?s unforgivable, it knows that I am visible
Broken mirrors and useless prayer
This lock is healing me, you know you came so willingly
There burns a kiss with serpent scales
There is no miracle, I lost your miracle
Nowhere near this place you wear
It?s unforgivable, it knows that I am visible
I wrap myself around your buried question
Through the blisters of confinement
I seek to drain this broken shelter
To refill the pigment case that I have left
Don?t stay long for teeth, nurse the first wound
Coats revive with hope to gain
What if we find what tongue ties double Windsor
Invoke to no reply
Those that lie have froze at the border
No implies, close the frame
What if we find the sunlight draws a curtain
Invoke to no reply
There?s a place where this depth charge ignites
In this place where a soul has no purpose
I can?t believe you when your thirst won?t let me go
I am the moment you were always speaking of because there?s
No fence will hold the sentient
Culprit fall about it
Say, where I can enter them
Culprit fall about it
One fell, the other taste won?t lie
Make no doubt about it
How many blame?
How many cave into the pressure I apply?
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How many cave into the pressure I apply?
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How many cave into the pressure I apply?
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How many cave into the pressure I apply?
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