Fezzan, a Turkish province lying to the S. of Tripoli, to which it is politically united; in character partakes of the desert region to which it belongs, being almost wholly composed of barren sandy plateaux, with here and there an oasis in the low valleys, where some attempt at cultivation is made. The people, who belong to the Berber stock, are Mohammedans, honest, but lazy and immoral. Murzuk (6) is the chief town.
Population (circa 1900) given as 50,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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