Tazerbu , is an
oasis located in the
Libyan Desert in the
Kufra District of
Libya, about 250 km to the northwest of
Kufra. The name means "main seat" in the
Toubou language, because this was the seat of the Toubou
Sultanate before the Arab invasion. The oasis is 25–30 km long and 10 km wide. In the middle of the oasis and parallel to it runs a shallow valley with salt ponds and salines. In Tazerbu there are about ten villages: the most important is called
El-Jezeera. In the oasis grow groups of palms,
tamarisks, acacias,
esparto and
Juncus. Several kilometers to the north of this village lie the ruins of an old castle, named
Gasr Giránghedi, which was the seat of the Sultan. The first European to visit the oasis was the German
Gerhard Rohlfs in August 1879.