Mauritania
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...products, gold, and cattle (the latter sent mainly to Senegal); the...Kumbi-Saleh, located near the present-day border with Mali, has been unearthed...11th cent. the Almoravid movement was founded among the Muslim...administered as part of Senegal. Saint-Louis, in Senegal, continued...