Tazerbu ( ar, تازربو) is an
oasis
In ecology, an oasis (; ) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environment'ksar''with its surrounding feeding source, the palm grove, within a relational and circulatory nomadic system.”
The location of oases has been of critical imp ...
located in the
Libyan Desert in the
Kufra District of
Libya, about 250 km to the northwest of
Kufra.
[Bertarelli (1929), p. 515.] The name means "main seat" in the
Toubou language, because this was the seat of the Toubou
Sultanate before the Arab invasion.
[ 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''.][ In the oasis grow groups of palms, tamarisks, acacias, esparto and Juncus.][ 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.][
The first European to visit the oasis was the German ]Gerhard Rohlfs
Gerhard Rohlfs (July 14, 1892 – September 12, 1986) was a German linguist. He taught Romance languages and literature at the universities of Tübingen and Munich. He was described as an "archeologist of words".
Biography
Rohlfs was born in B ...
in August 1879.[
]
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Oases of Libya
Populated places in Kufra District
Cyrenaica
Baladiyat of Libya
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