Trade routes across the Libyan desert and their economic role in the nineteenth century AD

Abstract

Commercial convoys passing through the sands of the desert in Libya to reach the shores of the Mediterranean in central Africa for hundreds of years have been one of the most important sources of life for thousands of Libyans starting with unloading and shipping ships and ending with residents of hamlets and oases extending inside the desert, especially since the Libyan land climate took a tendency to drought and the expansion of the area  Drylands and freshwater depletion in many springs.

The excellent geographical location of the Libyan land has been prepared for the bridging bridge to be at the forefront in the field of trade for many years without contesting or competing, so this land was a link between the unknowns of Africa and the outside world on the one hand, and the interconnectedness of the Libyan society on the other hand, as was the link between the Maghreb of the Arab world with its east, its long coast  The curve towards the south has made its ports the closest outlets for access to tropical Central Africa products. The life of construction and the multiplicity of stations and rest houses along the coastal strip and parallel internal roads have an easy process of transporting people and goods from Egypt, the Levant and the Hijaz to Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, and  The Andalus.

And the methods used by camel caravans loaded with multiple goods and goods to and from Libya, we find that these roads have formed a wide interconnected network that covered most of the Libyan lands from north to south and from west to east. There is no doubt that this organized network has contributed to the formation of a group of factors, including the nature of transport  And the commercial movement in means that were dependent on the emergence of beauty, which requires the provision of continuous and close supply and comfort stations, including also the provision of fresh water, all of this was always helping the presence of the population on trade routes and thus to the cooperation of these residents with each other and thus the result was to  The link between the population and the tribes in those areas with other regions.