Tamanrasset

Tamanrasset also known as Tamanghasset or Tamenghest, is an oasis city and capital of Tamanrasset Province in southern Algeria, in the Ahaggar Mountains. It is the leader metropolis of the Algerian Tuareg. It is placed an altitude of 1,320 metres. As of the 2008 census, it has a population of 92,635, up from 72,741 in 1998 with an annual boom price of 2.5 %.

Tamanrasset became in the beginning hooked up as a navy outpost to guard the trans-Saharan trade routes. Surrounded by using the barren Sahara Desert, very high temperatures of over 47 °C had been recorded here. Tamanrasset originated because the centre of a network of camel caravan trading routes from Kano, Lake Chad, Gao, Agades and Zinder. When Algeria changed into beneath French rule the city turned into mounted as a army put up, initially named Fort Laperrine, after General François-Henry Laperrine who died in the wasteland nearby. The Catholic priest Charles de Foucauld became shot to loss of life outdoor his Tamanrasset compound with the aid of Sermi ag Thora below the command of El Madani ag Soba on December 1, 1916.