Ag'ades, once a very important city of Central Africa, and still a great meeting-place of trading caravans, is the capital of the state Air or Asben, south of the Sahara, and is built upon the eastern edge of a great tableland, at an elevation of not less than 2500 feet. In the 16th century it probably contained 60,000 inhabitants; now it has some 7000.
Ag'ades
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 89
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