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Arzugitana was a region of North Africa during antiquity.[1]
Arzugitana was on the interior plateau of what is today southern Tunisia and which abuts the Sahara Desert roughly equivalent to the Tataouine Governorate of modern Tunisia. During antiquity this was an isolated and strategically important area being part of the interface with the barbarian world and the Roman Empire, It had an essentially military organization along the Limes Tripolitanus of the Roman Empire. The area was semi-arid, and to the south was the sands of the edge of the Sahara Desert.
The region stretched from Nepte to Garama. It also encompassed some oases, such as the Oasis of Nefzaoua and Djerid bordering the Chott el-Djrid.
- ^ In notitiam Ecclesiasticam Afriquae tabula geographica] (Cowens & Mortier edit.)