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Djerid, the Glossary

el-Djerid, also al-Jarīd, (الجريد; Derja: Jrīd) or more precisely the South Western Tunisia Region is a semi-desert natural region comprising three southern Tunisian Governorates, Gafsa, Kebili and Tozeur with adjacent parts of Algeria and Libya.^[1]

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Geography of Algeria
Geography of Libya
Natural regions of Africa
Regions of Tunisia

Africa (Roman province)

Africa was a Roman province on the northern coast of the continent of Africa.

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Algeria

Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.

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Aquifer

An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing material, consisting of permeable or fractured rock, or of unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt).

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Arabs

The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.

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Berbers

Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also called by their endonym Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migrations to the Maghreb.

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Castra

In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the Latin word castrum (castra) was a military-related term.

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Chott

In geology, a chott, shott, or shatt (lit) is a salt lake in Africa's Maghreb that stays dry for much of the year but receives some water in the winter.

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Chott el Djerid

Chott el Djerid (شط الجريد) also spelled Sciott Gerid and Shott el Jerid, is a chott, a large endorheic salt lake in southern Tunisia.

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Date palm

Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the date palm, is a flowering-plant species in the palm family, Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit called dates.

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Deglet Nour

Deglet Nour, also spelled Deglet Noor (Modern Arabic:; from Classical Arabic دقْلَة النُور daqlatu (a)n-nūr, literally, "date-palm of light", "heavenly date"; from Classical Arabic daqal, a kind of date palm), is a cultivar of the date palm that originated in the oasis of Tolga in Algeria.

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Diocese

In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.

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Djerba

Djerba (Jirba,; Meninge, Girba), also transliterated as Jerba or Jarbah, is a Tunisian island and the largest island of North Africa at, in the Gulf of Gabès, off the coast of Tunisia.

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Gafsa

Gafsa (قفصة qafṣah/gafṣah) is the capital of Gafsa Governorate of Tunisia.

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Gafsa Governorate

Gafsa Governorate (Gouvernorat de Gafsa) is one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia.

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Governorate

A governorate or governate is an administrative division of a state that is headed by a governor.

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Ibadi Islam

The Ibadi movement or Ibadism (al-ʾIbāḍiyya) is a branch inside Islam, which many believe is descended from the Kharijites.

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Ifriqiya

Ifriqiya, also known as al-Maghrib al-Adna (المغرب الأدنى), was a medieval historical region comprising today's Tunisia and eastern Algeria, and Tripolitania (roughly western Libya).

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Imam

Imam (إمام,;: أئمة) is an Islamic leadership position.

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Kebili Governorate

Kebili Governorate (Gouvernorat de Kébili) is the second largest of the 24 governorates (provinces) of Tunisia.

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Libya

Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

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Limes (Roman Empire)

Limes (Latin;,: limites) is a term used primarily for the Germanic border defence or delimiting system of Ancient Rome marking the borders of the Roman Empire.

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M'zab

The M'zab or Mzab (Mozabite: Aghlan, Mzāb) is a natural region of the northern Sahara Desert in Ghardaïa Province, Algeria. Djerid and M'zab are geography of Algeria.

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Maghreb

The Maghreb (lit), also known as the Arab Maghreb (اَلْمَغْرِبُ الْعَرَبِيُّ) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of the Arab world.

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Mediterranean Basin

In biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin, also known as the Mediterranean Region or sometimes Mediterranea, is the region of lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have mostly a Mediterranean climate, with mild to cool, rainy winters and warm to hot, dry summers, which supports characteristic Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub vegetation.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Muslim conquest of the Maghreb

The Muslim conquest of the Maghreb or Arab conquest of North Africa by the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates commenced in 647 and concluded in 709, when the Byzantine Empire lost its last remaining strongholds to Caliph Al-Walid I. The North African campaigns were part of the century of rapid early Muslim conquests.

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Nafusa Mountains

The Nafusa Mountains (جبال نفوسة) is a mountain range in the western Tripolitania region of northwestern Libya.

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Natural region

A natural region (landscape unit) is a basic geographic unit.

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Nefta, Tunisia

Nefta (or Nafta) is a Tunisian municipality and an oasis in Tozeur Governorate north of the Chott el Djerid.

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Nefzaoua

Nefzaoua (نفزاوة) is a region of southwest Tunisia bounded by the salt lake Chott el Djerid to the west, the Grand Erg Oriental to the south, and the Dahar plateau to the east. Djerid and Nefzaoua are regions of Tunisia.

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Nomad

Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas.

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Numidia

Numidia was the ancient kingdom of the Numidians in northwest Africa, initially comprising the territory that now makes up Algeria, but later expanding across what is today known as Tunisia and Libya.

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Oasis

In ecology, an oasis (oases) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environment.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djerid

Also known as Jarid, South West Tunisia.

Djerid, the Glossary

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See also

Geography of Algeria

Geography of Libya

Natural regions of Africa

Regions of Tunisia

References