Tazirbu
Tāzirbū (also Tazerbo, Taiserbo ) (Arabic: تازربو) , is an Oasis placed in the Libyan Desert in the Al Kufrah District of Libya, about 250 km to the NW of Kufra.[1] The name means "main seat" in Tebu language, because this was the seat of the Tebu Sultanate before the Arab invasion.[1] 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 Tāzirbū there are about ten villages: the most important is called El-Jezeera.[1] In the oasis grow groups of palms, tamarisks, acacias, esparto and Juncus.[1] Some Kilometers to the north of this village lie the ruins of an old castle, named Gasr Giránghedi, which was the seat of the Sultan.[1] The first European to visit the oasis was the German Gerhard Rohlfs in August 1879.[1]
Sources
- Bertarelli, L.V. (1929) (in Italian). Guida d'Italia, Vol. XVII. Milano: Consociazione Turistica Italiana.
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f Bertarelli (1929), p. 515.
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