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Al Awaynat
Al Awaynat or Alawinat ( ar, العوينات) or Serdeles is a small town located in the Sahara Desert in Libya. It lies at the entrance of the Djebel Al Akakus. It is located 240 km south west of the city of Ubari and 120 km north of the city of Ghat, Libya, Ghat. Al Awaynat is the gate of Tadrart Acacus and its residents from Toureg tribe. It is located some west of Ubari. The name ''Serdeles'' in the Tuareg language is meaning ''small springs'',Salem Mohammed ez Zawwam, "Al Mu'jam Al Jughrafi lil Amakin Allibiya", Dar wa Maktabat Ash Sha'b lin Nashr wa Tazee', Misrata, Libya, 2005. pp.84, 170–171. the same meaning of the Arabic name, hence, the Arabic name is probably an Arabizing of the Tuareg name. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fezzan
Fezzan ( , ; ber, ⴼⵣⵣⴰⵏ, Fezzan; ar, فزان, Fizzān; la, Phazania) is the southwestern region of modern Libya. It is largely desert, but broken by mountains, uplands, and dry river valleys (wadis) in the north, where oases enable ancient towns and villages to survive deep in the otherwise inhospitable Sahara Desert. The term originally applied to the land beyond the coastal strip of Africa proconsularis, including the Nafusa and extending west of modern Libya over Ouargla and Illizi. As these Berber areas came to be associated with the regions of Tripoli, Cirta or Algiers, the name was increasingly applied to the arid areas south of Tripolitania. After the 1934 formation of Libya, the Fezzan province was designated as one of the three primary provinces of the country, alongside Tripolitania province to the north and Cyrenaica province to the northeast. Name In Berber languages, ''Fezzan'' (or ''ifezzan'') means "rough rocks". ''Fezzan'' could also be a derivati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
