Tamanrasset (1983: Doomsday)

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Tamanrasset
Timeline: 1983: Doomsday

Tamanresset = 1
Capital (and largest city)	Tamanrasset
Language   official	Aljazaa'ir (Algerian Arabic)
others	Greek, French, English
Religion	Islam
Area	x km² (nominally ruled), y km² (ruled) km²
Population	est. x (y if all claimed territory is estimated)
Established	1984

History

Pre-Doomsday

For most of history the area of modern Tamanrasset was just desert with numerous nomadic peoples such as the Tuareg and the Songhai to call it home

Tamanrasset was founded in 1984 in the remains of southern Algeria. By 1997 it had expanded across the border into northern Niger. In 2002 it expanded across the former border into a unclaimed section of Mali.

Although formally a desert town with on average 70mm or 2.5 inches of rain per year this has increased by nearly two fold since 2000 to nearly 140mm or 5 inches of rain per year, mostly between January and May or the wet season. This however has not changed the ecology of the area vastly.