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The Godala is a Berber tribe in Northern Africa that lived along the Atlantic coast () in present day Mauritania () and participated in the Saharan salt trade () and the salt mines of Ijiil. The Godala may be linked to or the same as the Gaetuli tribe of Berbers () According to a 1985 study of West African history,() the area along both sides of the mouth of the Senegal River was controlled by the - Godala group of Berbers. They mined the Awlil salt deposits along the coast just north of the mouth of the Senegal, and controlled a coastal trade route that linked southern Morocco. Godala territory bordered that of Takrur, and Godala caravans traded salt mined at Awlil along the north bank of the Senegal. () ==Sources== * General History of Africa: Africa from the twelfth to the sixteenth century edited by D. T. Niane, UNESCO, 1984 - 751 pages, (found on Google books) (link ) * UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. IV, Abridged Edition: Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century. By Joseph Ki-Zerbo, (found on Google books) University of California Press, May 10, 1998 - 277 pages, p62 (link ) * WESTERN AFRICA TO c1860 A.D. A PROVISIONAL HISTORICAL SCHW BASED ON CLIMATE PERIODS by George E. Brooks, Indiana University African Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, August, 1985 () 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Godala」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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