Mizda

Mizda is a small oasis south of the Nafusa Mountains, on a route between Tripoli and Fezzan. Its wells and gardens offer a stopping place before the long crossing of the stony desert. One of the principal caravan roads from Tripoli to Murzuq passed through Mizda, while another ran farther east through Bani Walid. The oasis thus belonged to a network of routes carrying people and goods between the Mediterranean and the central Sahara.