Tindirma

Tindirma stands beside the Niger west of Timbuktu, in the river country of the Songhai. Its position on the water placed it within the network of towns and cultivated lands that supported the Songhai state. In the sixteenth century Askia Dawud, one of its rulers, returned to Tindirma during his reign, as recorded in the chronicle known as the Tarikh al-Sudan. The river linked the town with Timbuktu and the other centres of the Niger bend.