Upper Sofeggin Basin (Reynolds)
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http://inslib.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/introductions/I9_uppersofegginbasin.html
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Area (conceptual/geographic) , River/drainage/wadi
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- Upper Sofeggin Basin (Reynolds) forms part of Wādī Sawfajjīn
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Notes
Reynolds IRT, Chapter 9: The Wadi Sofeggin, the northernmost of the three great wadis which flow into the south-west angle of the gulf of Sirte, stretches over 300 km. from the source, a short distance only from the Djebel escarpment, south of Zintan, to the mouth in the coastal marshes. In the first third of its course the Sofeggin runs through desolate, ill-watered country, with little trace of ancient habitation south of the foothills of the Djebel. Along it, however, ran an important caravan-trail, later a military road; and a second military road, also no doubt originally a caravan-route, strikes south from Garian, and ultimately from the coast at Oea, to meet the first at Mizda. Of Roman Mizda itself all trace has been overlaid by later settlement, but there can be little doubt that it was in antiquity, as now, an important centre for desert communications, both civil and military.