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    Zinder is a historical city and former capital located in the Zinder region in southern Niger. The city benefited from its strategic location on the trans-Saharan trade routes and between Niamey, Chad and Nigeria, as it developed from just a small village into the capital of the Muslim Sultanate of Damagaram in 1736 AD. Among the most important remains of the city, there is the fort and the palace, which dates back to the mid-nineteenth century AD, during the reign of Sultan Tanimoune.
    The site is included on the UNESCO Tentative List under the official name, The Old Town of Zinder, Birni District and the Sultanate.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Zinder
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    Zinder
    by Roland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Zinder
    by Roland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Zinder

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2006

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    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Niger

    Zinder Region

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    18th Century AD

    Islamic

    Islamic

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    Sultanate of Damagaram Monuments

     

     

     

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