Hodh

Hodh or El Hodh[4] (from the Arabic for "the Basin") is a region of West Africa.[2] Previously administered as part of French Sudan (present-day Mali), the area was transferred to French Mauritania in 1944, apparently on a whim of the colonial governor Laigret.[5] The transfer was still resented upon Mali's independence.[6] Formerly more fertile, it is now largely a barren waste.[7]

For the Norse god, see Höðr.
An 1861 German map displaying unoccupied El Hodh amid the Toucouleur Empire of Umar Tall.

It gave its name to the modern Mauritanian regions of Hodh Ech Chargui and Hodh El Gharbi.

References
  1. Fāsī, Muḥammad & al. General History of Africa, Vol. III: Africa from the Seventh to the Eleventh Century, p. 130. UNESCO (Paris), 1988. Accessed 18 Apr 2014.
  2. Barth, Henry. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa, being a Journal of an Expedition undertaken under the Auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the Years 1849–1855, Vol. 3, pp. 712 ff. Harper & Bros. (New York), 1859. Accessed 18 Apr 2014.
  3. Ould-Mey, Mohameden. Global Restructuring and Peripheral States: The Carrot and the Stick in Mauritania, p. 66. Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham), 1996. Accessed 18 Apr 2014.
  4. Also encountered as Hōdh, Ḥawḍ,[1] Hódh,[2] and al-Hodh.[3]
  5. Lalonde, Suzanne. Determining Boundaries in a Conflicted World: The Role of Uti Possidetis, p. 109. McGill-Queen's University Press (Montreal), 2002. Accessed 18 Apr 2014.
  6. Touval, Saadia. The Boundary Politics of Independent Africa, p. 247. iUniverse, 1999. ISBN 1583484221. Accessed 18 Apr 2014.
  7. Morgan, William & al. West Africa, pp. 254 ff. Methuen, 1973.

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