Idehan Ubari, the Glossary
The Ubari Desert, Idehan Ubari, Idehan Awbari (Idehan means fine sand in Tamasheq) or Ubari Erg is an erg in the hyper-arid Fezzan region of southwestern Libya with a surface of approximately 58,000 km2.[1]
Table of Contents
15 relations: Berber languages, Date palm, Erg (landform), Fezzan, Gaberoun, Geography of Libya, Libya, List of ergs, Murzuq Desert, Native species, Oasis, Sahara, Tuareg people, Ubari, Wadi al Hayaa District.
- Deserts of Libya
- Ergs of Africa
- Fezzan
Berber languages
The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.
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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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Erg (landform)
An erg (also sand sea or dune sea, or sand sheet if it lacks dunes) is a broad, flat area of desert covered with wind-swept sand with little or no vegetative cover.
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Fezzan
Fezzan (Fezzan; فَزَّان|Fazzān; Phazania) is the southwestern region of modern Libya.
Gaberoun
Gaberoun (قبر عون, alternate spelling Gaberoun, Gaber Awhn, Gabr Awhn, Gabr Own, Gabraun) is an oasis with a large lake in the Idehan Ubari desert region of the Libyan Sahara. Idehan Ubari and Gaberoun are Fezzan.
Geography of Libya
Libya is the fourth largest country in Africa and the sixteenth largest country in the world.
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Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
List of ergs
In geomorphology, an erg is a large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, it is divided into 3 parts: back erg, central erg, fore erg, especially in the Sahara.
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Murzuq Desert
The Murzuq Desert, Idehan Murzuq, Idhan Murzuq, (also Murzaq, Murzuk, Marzuq and Murzak), is an erg in southwestern Libya with a surface of approximately 58,000 km2. Idehan Ubari and Murzuq Desert are deserts of Libya, ergs of Africa, Fezzan and Sahara.
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Native species
In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often popularised as "with no human intervention") during history.
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Oasis
In ecology, an oasis (oases) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environment.
Sahara
The Sahara is a desert spanning across North Africa.
Tuareg people
The Tuareg people (also spelled Twareg or Touareg; endonym: Imuhaɣ/Imušaɣ/Imašeɣăn/Imajeɣăn) are a large Berber ethnic group, traditionally nomadic pastoralists, who principally inhabit the Sahara in a vast area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, as far as northern Nigeria.
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Ubari
Ubari or Awbari (‘Awbārī) is an oasis town and the capital of the Wadi al Hayaa District, in the Fezzan region of southwestern Libya.
Wadi al Hayaa District
Wadi al Hayaa (وادي الحياة Wādī al Ḥayāh) is one of the districts of Libya. Idehan Ubari and Wadi al Hayaa District are Fezzan.
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See also
Deserts of Libya
- Acacus Mountains
- Calanshio Sand Sea
- Calansho Desert
- Great Sand Sea
- Idehan Ubari
- Libyan Desert
- Murzuq Desert
- Rebiana Sand Sea
- Southern Military Territory
Ergs of Africa
- Calanshio Sand Sea
- El Djouf
- Erg Admer
- Erg Amatlich
- Erg Chebbi
- Erg Chech
- Erg Chigaga
- Erg Iguidi
- Erg of Bilma
- Grand Erg Occidental
- Grand Erg Oriental
- Great Sand Sea
- Idehan Ubari
- Issaouane Erg
- Kalahari Desert
- Murzuq Desert
- Namib
- Rebiana Sand Sea
- Ténéré
Fezzan
- Acacus Mountains
- Acacus Sandstone
- Aghram Nadharif
- Banu Khattab
- Brak al-Shati Airbase raid
- Fezzan
- Fezzan Road
- Gaberoun
- Ghat District
- Idehan Ubari
- Jufra District
- Mizda–Brak Road
- Mizdah Formation
- Murzuq Desert
- Murzuq District
- Sabha District
- Takarkori
- Tarab Formation
- Ubari conflict
- Wadi Mathendous
- Wadi Wishka Dam
- Wadi al Hayaa District
- Wadi al Shatii District
- Waw an Namus
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idehan_Ubari
Also known as Erg Ubari, Ubari Desert.