Once the ice sheets were gone, the northern Sahara dried out.

Influence was also built up in the northern Sahara by driving out the Ibadi from Sandrata (1077).

Shilha, or Tashelhit, is a term used to refer to a number of Berber languages spoken across the northern Sahara.

It reminds me vaguely of that ritual music played to the god Pan in parts of the northern Sahara.

El Aaiún (also called Laayoune) is a city in northern Western Sahara.

Aridal is a settlement in northern Western Sahara.

The Mozabite people are a Berber ethnic group living in M'zab in the northern Sahara.

There were also some bodies of water in improbable places - the northern Sahara's Lake Saladin was almost a small sea.

Al Ga'da is a settlement in northern Western Sahara.

The Tekna is a Sahrawi tribal confederation in southern Morocco and parts of northern Western Sahara.