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🇱🇾 Libya

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🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city

Germa (Garama) - Garamantian Capital

Iron Age Saharan to Islamic (900 BCE–600 CE) · Garamantian (Saharan Berber)

6-ha foggara-irrigated Garamantian capital with 500 qanat and 250 tombs in Fezzan heartland.

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🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city

Augila Oasis Complex

Garamantian to Islamic (5th c. BCE–present) · Garamantian / Berber / Islamic

Herodotean palm grove oasis with foggaras and ksour granaries (200 chambers).

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🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city

Augila (Awjila / Aujila Oasis) – Herodotean Palmgrove

Garamantian / Roman · Libyan / Roman

Date-forest island famed since Herodotus for Ammonite pilgrim routes Siwa→Augila→Garama. Garamantian–Greco–Roman caravanserai with foggara traces and late-antique church; mudbrick town overlies souq.