| IF YOU WOULD LIKE A LARGE DETAILED SCAN CONTACT US FOR A COPY. Tripolitana, is in reality the Saharan coast of the Mediterranean. It is composed of plains of sand and rocky plateaux, to the east the plateau of Barka(ancient Cyrenaica whose coasts in antiquity were very fertile), the oasis and city of Tripoli (30,000 inhabitants), and the inland the oasis of Ghadames. On this territory of 462,767 sq. miles there are scarcely one million inhabitants. The principal resources and in the oases date palms. Published for Elisee Reclus Universal Geography |
