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PMR643-08 Libya, Fezzan: Ghat, an oasis town and permanent Tuareg settlement on the Algerian border going back to Garamantian times (1st century BC). The path up to the fortress, begun by the Ottoman and finished by the Italians ca. 1935. Keywords: Maghreb, barren, sand-dune landscape, sand dunes, Sahara Desert, mud brick buildings, adobe, Tuareg architecture, historical oasis town

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Photographer: Peter Michael Rhodes
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PMR643-08
Upload Date: 2012-11-10 13:31:05
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Libya, Fezzan: Ghat, an oasis town and permanent Tuareg settlement

on the Algerian border going back to Garamantian times (1st century BC). The path up to the fortress, begun by the Ottoman and finished by the Italians ca. 1935.
Keywords: Maghreb, barren, sand-dune landscape, sand dunes, Sahara Desert, mud brick buildings, adobe, Tuareg architecture, historical oasis town