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Murzuk
Town in Fezzan, Libya / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the town in southwestern Libya. For the district of which it is the seat, see Murzuq District.
Murzuk, Murzuq, Murzug or Merzug (Arabic: مرزق) is an oasis town and the capital of the Murzuq District in the Fezzan region of southwest Libya.[3] It lies on the northern edge of the Murzuq Desert, an extremely arid region of ergs or great sand dunes which is part of the greater Sahara Desert.