Tazerbu (Arabic: تازربو) is an oasis located in the Libyan Desert in the Kufra District of Libya, about 250 km to the northwest of Kufra.[2] The name means "main seat" in the Toubou language, because this was the seat of the Toubou Sultanate before the Arab conquest.[2] The oasis is 25–30 km long and 10 km wide. In the middle of the oasis and parallel to it runs a shallow valley with salt ponds and salines. In Tazerbu there are about ten villages: the most important is called El-Jezeera.[2] In the oasis grow groups of palms, tamarisks, acacias, esparto and Juncus.[2] Several kilometers to the north of this village lie the ruins of an old castle, named Gasr Giránghedi, which was the seat of the Sultan.[2] The first European to visit the oasis was the German Gerhard Rohlfs in August 1879.[2]
Sources
- Bertarelli, L.V. (1929). Guida d'Italia, Vol. XVII (in Italian). Milano: Consociazione Turistica Italiana.
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