Essouk
Sign in to savethumb|right|305px|Trade routes of the Western Sahara c. 1000–1500. Essouk is shown as Tadmekka. Goldfields are indicated by light brown shading.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Essouk
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Commune and village
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mali
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Mali
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Kidal Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Cercle
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Kidal Cercle
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2009
- Settlement.population_total
- 2383
- Settlement.timezone
- GMT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +0
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- Elevation
- 405
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- Essouk, Mali
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thumb|right|305px|Trade routes of the Western Sahara c. 1000–1500. Essouk is shown as Tadmekka. Goldfields are indicated by light brown shading.
Essouk (Arabic: : "the market") is a commune and small village in the Kidal Region of Mali. The village lies 45 km northwest of Kidal in the Adrar des Ifoghas massif. The ruins of the medieval town of Tadmakka (Arabic: ) lie 2 km northeast of the present village. Between the 9th and the 15th centuries Tadmekka served as an important entrepôt for the trans-Saharan trade.
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