N'Goussa

N’Goussa stands north of Ouargla in the great oasis basin at the edge of the Sahara. Its fortified settlement and palm groves are part of a landscape sustained by underground water amid the desert. N’Goussa was an important ksar in its own right, with a local ruling family that competed with that of Ouargla. The neighbouring oases belonged to a region connected by routes across the Sahara to the Maghreb and the lands farther south.