Ghat

Ghat is an oasis at the foot of the mountains of the central Sahara, a meeting place for caravans travelling between Ghadames, Fezzan and the lands to the south. Its old town and palm gardens stand amid a vast desert landscape. Ghat was a stronghold of the Kel Ajjer Tuareg, whose territory extended across the surrounding Sahara. Merchants arrived from the Maghreb and the desert interior, exchanging goods and enslaved people along routes that linked the Mediterranean to regions beyond the Sahara.