Maradah

Maradah is an oasis in the desert south of the Gulf of Sirte, west of Jalu and east of Zella. Palm groves and gardens mark the presence of water amid a wide expanse of stony and sandy ground. The oasis lies between the coastal country of Cyrenaica and the interior of the Fezzan, separated from its neighbours by long stretches of desert. Its cultivated land forms a small green patch in an otherwise arid landscape.