Murzuk, Murzuq, Murzug or Merzug (Arabic: مرزق) is an oasis town and the capital of the Murzuq District in the Fezzan region of southwest Libya. It lies...
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Fasilides Castle Kusquam Castle Fort Jesus Lord Egerton Castle (Ngata) Murzuk Castle in Murzuk Sabha Castle in Sabha Red Castle in Tripoli Soroca Castle Artificial...
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called the Bilma Trail. The Garamantean Road passed south of the desert near Murzuk before turning north to pass between the Alhaggar and Tibesti Mountains...
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Trans-Saharan trade between Kharga (the Darb al Arbein) close to the Nile, and Murzuk in the Libyan Fezzan. This obscurity saw the region overlooked by early...
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to London. He then returned to Murzuk. Nothing further is known with certainty concerning him or his companion. In Murzuk Hornemann had collected a great...
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Murzuq Desert (redirect from Murzuk Sand Sea)
Murzaq, Murzuk, Marzuq and Murzak), is an erg in southwestern Libya with a surface of approximately 58,000 km2. It is named after the town of Murzuk in the...
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[1798-1800]. From Tripoli to Murzuk in 1799. Then disguised as a Muslim, he travelled with a caravan from Cairo to Siwa and Murzuk then down to Lake Chad and...
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the districts of Libya. It is in the south of the country. Its capital is Murzuk. The city was occupied by the Ottoman Empire in 1578 and served as the capital...
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sixteenth century led to the founding of the Awlad Muhammad dynasty, with Murzuk becoming the capital of Fezzan. Around 1565 it was ruled by Muhammad ibn...
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Capture of Kufra (section Attack on Murzuk)
vehicles. The LRDG and Free French first raided the Italian airfield at Murzuk, in the Territorio Sahara Libico–Fezzan region in south-western Libya. D'Ornano...
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(Arabic: تراغن) is a small town in the Murzuk Desert in Murzuq District in southwest Libya. It is located east of Murzuk and Zizau. A good high road is said...
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Borno State, Nigeria, is descended from al-Kanemi. al-Kanemi was born in Murzuk in 1776. His father, Muhammad Ninka, was a well-known local Kanembu mallam...
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of Sollum, Kufra Oasis, Jalo at the west end of the Great Sand Sea and Murzuk, 500 mi (800 km) south of Tripoli. The oasis of Giarabub was attacked in...
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Nafusa Mountains. Southern Libya, primarily Sebha, Kufra, Ghat, Ghadamis and Murzuk, is also inhabited by two other ethnic groups; the Tuareg and Toubou. Libya...
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Gharyan Jamal Issa – City of Kabaw Ali Gamma – City of Murzuk Abd al-Hadi Shaweesh – City of Murzuk Ramadan Khaled – City of Msallata Ibrahim BenGhasheer...
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Sarapion, Sennar. North Africa – Caesarea, Carthage, Cyrene, Leptis Magna, Murzuk, Sijilmassa, Tamanrasset, Tingis. Arabia – Cane, Eudaemon Arabia, Mocha...
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(Algeria), Taoudenni (Mali), Iférouane, Chinguetti (Mauritania), Kufra, and Murzuk (Libya)." Trade didn't flourish however. The state awarded monopolies, often...
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Libya. Leclerc's attention was drawn to two Italian outposts in the desert, Murzuk in southwestern Libya and Kufra in the southeast. Both were over 1,000 miles...
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Murzuq Desert in Murzuq District in southwest Libya. It is located east of Murzuk and just to the northeast of Zizau.[citation needed] To the east is Traghan...
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before. A year later, due to many delays, they had only reached as far as Murzuk, the capital of Fezzan, where they both fell ill with fever. They ran out...
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Boshnakov Portrait of Marko Boshnakov Born 1878 Ohrid, Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire Died 1908 Murzuk, Fezzan, Ottoman Empire Nationality Bulgarian...
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List of members elected to the General National Congress, 2012 (section Constituency No. 7: Obari, Ghat and Murzuk)
El-Hash – 1,054 (23.71%) • Mohamed Ibrahim Makhi Abdulqader – 974 (21.91%) Murzuk Seats: 4. Candidates: 38 Elected: • Masoud Abdul Salam Ebaid Ettaher – 6...
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medina named after its fortress Casbah of Dellys Derna Ghadames Gharyan Hun Murzuk Tripoli Waddan Tazirbu Benghazi Asilah Casablanca Chefchaouen Essaouira...
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Council source claimed that Saif had been given a forged passport near Murzuk and was in the Ghat area near the border of Niger and Algeria. The same...
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Qubah / القبة 24,631 36 Tawergha / تاورغاء * 24,223 37 Al Maya 23,222 38 Murzuk / مرزق 22,395 39 Brega 21,715 40 Teghsat 21,642 41 Hun 19,816 42 Jalu 18...
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found in blackened sandstone. Tadrart Acacus, Libya: Near the sand dune of Murzuk, bordering Tassili n'Ajjer, exists 12,000 year old prehistoric rock art...
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(Arabic: جيزاو) is a village in the Murzuk Desert in Murzuq District in southwest Libya. It is located east of Murzuk and just to the southwest of Funqul...
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been sent to Fezzan in Sahara. He died of tuberculosis on June 8, 1908 in Murzuk, but his skull was returned to Macedonia by Pavel Shatev and Georgi Bogdanov...
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Muammar Gaddafi, briefly capturing the town of Qatrun and claiming to capture Murzuk for the rebel movement a month later. In March 2012, bloody clashes broke...
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