Tuareg, Africa
December 2, 2009 / 0 Comments


Tuareg, Africa

The Tuareg is commonly known as Twareg and also Touareg. Tuareg are a Berber roaming pastoralist people. They are the major population of the Saharan center of North Africa. They call themselves by various names such as the Kel Tamasheq and also Kel Tamajaq which mean “Speakers of Tamasheq”, also Imuhagh, mashaghen, which means “the free people” and also Kel Tagelmust that means the “People of the Veil”. The name Tuareg was given to them by early historians as well as the explorers those belongs to Leo Africanus. The meaning and the origin of the name Twareg has been long discussed with numerous etymologies superior, although it would come into view that Twārəg is derivative of the “broken plural” of Tārgi, a name whose previous sense was “inhabitant of Targa” . Also the Tuareg  [...] 


Leptis Magna, Tripoli
November 27, 2009 / 0 Comments


Leptis Magna, Tripoli

Leptis Magna is commonly known as Lectis Magna or many times spelled as Lepcis Magna, it is also popular as Lpqy as well as the Neapolis, was an important city during the Roman Empire. The ruins of Leptis Magna city are located in Libya in the Al Khums which is located at a distance of nearly 130 km to the east of Tripoli. It is located on the coastal region of Wadi Lebda and its interjection with the sea. The site is also popular as one of the most impressive and untouched Roman ruins in the Mediterranean region. The city was been found around 1100 BC and is supposed to be found by the Phoenician colonists. The city gained the importance during the rule of Carthage in the Mediterranean Sea. Carthage ruled the region in the fourth century BC. Till the third Punic war which took place in 146 BC, Leptis Magna was the part of the Carthage’s  [...]