{"slug": "sahara", "label": "Sahara", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6583", "qid": "Q6583", "description": "desert on the African continent", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [668, 1965], "span_label": ["668 CE", "1965 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Sahara Desert"], "related": [{"slug": "morocco", "label": "Morocco", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "berber-people", "label": "Berber people", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kharijites", "label": "Kharijites", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "trade", "label": "Trade", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "algeria", "label": "Algeria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tunisia", "label": "Tunisia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mahdia", "label": "Mahdia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "history-of-slavery", "label": "History of slavery", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "almoravid-dynasty", "label": "Almoravid dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ghana-empire", "label": "Ghana Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "libya", "label": "Libya", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "arabs", "label": "Arabs", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 668, "year_label": "668 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Arab forces conquer the Garamantes in the Sahara desert (Libya).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340805218#Arabian_Empire", "title": "668", "revid": 1340805218, "section": "Events › By place › Arabian Empire"}}, {"year": 700, "year_label": "700 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The African slave trade through the Sahara is so extensive that the town of Zawila (Tunisia) is established.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806781#Arabian_Empire", "title": "700", "revid": 1340806781, "section": "Events › By place › Arabian Empire"}}, {"year": 757, "year_label": "757 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The city of Sijilmasa (modern Morocco) is founded by the Miknasa, a Zenata Berber tribe. They adopt Kharijism-Islam, and establish the Emirate of Sijilmasa in the northern Sahara. It becomes a wealthy trading center as the western end-point of the Trans-Saharan trade.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341678247#Africa", "title": "AD 757", "revid": 1341678247, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1054, "year_label": "1054 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Almoravids retake the trading center of Aoudaghost from the Ghana Empire. Repeated Almoravid incursions, aimed at seizing control of the trans-Saharan gold trade, disrupt Ghana's dominance of the trade routes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267065294#Africa", "title": "1054", "revid": 1267065294, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1933, "year_label": "1933 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 11", "text": "April 11 – Aviator Bill Lancaster takes off from Lympne in England, in an attempt to make a speed record to the Cape of Good Hope, but vanishes (his body is not found in the Sahara Desert until 1962).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371108771#April", "title": "1933", "revid": 1371108771, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1960, "year_label": "1960 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 13", "text": "February 13 – Gerboise Bleue: France tests its first atomic bomb, in the Sahara Desert of Algeria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371870774#February", "title": "1960", "revid": 1371870774, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "November 26", "text": "November 26 – At the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant A rocket with its first satellite, Astérix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter outer space.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368843670#November–December", "title": "1965", "revid": 1368843670, "section": "Events › November–December"}}]}