Iwellemmeden

The Iwellemmeden were a Tuareg confederation whose territory stretched from the Timbuktu region across the Azawagh valley. By the mid-fifteenth century they controlled land extending east toward the Air Mountains.

In the eighteenth century the confederation divided into the western Kel Ataram and eastern Kel Dinnik. The Kel Ataram later imposed indirect rule on Timbuktu, but the Fula Macina Empire drove them from the city in 1826.