Traghan

Traghan or Traghen[1] (Arabic: تراغن) is a small town in the Murzuk Desert in Murzuq District in southwest Libya.

A good high road is said to link Traghan to Zizau in the west, with frequent incrustations of salt.

[2] The Saifawa were said to have "gained control of the Fezzan by establishing a post in the oasis of Traghan about twenty miles east of modern Murzuk and some seventy miles west-south-west of ancient Zawila.

[4] In the late 1820s, Traghan was described as was formerly as considerable a place as Murzuk; and was, about sixty years ago, the residence of a sultan, who governed eastern Fezzan.

[5] It contained four mosques with small mud minarets and houses that were mostly large but in ruin.