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Mother and daughter: the mother strongly resembles a Sloughi,
Air Mountains, Niger 2005 © G. Hanß
We remember, in Arrian we find the Greek What is certain, however, is that captives
word "Nomades" ("nomads", Berber = from their people ended up in the Roman
Libyan), who were found throughout North cities, for example in Leptis Magna, as
Africa (22). - Locally, the term Targa refers prey to lions, etc. They ended up in the
to the fertile Wadi al-Haya. arena, as mosaic representations from
North Africa show.
The Garamantes (23) who developed a
warlike camel nomadism in southern Tunisia Trade was initially conducted via the
and Libya at around the timeline BC changed Greek colony of Cyrene, and after the
to AD, once settled in this area. They settled conquest of the area by the Romans, via
in the interior of Libya around the main the city of Leptis Magna, from where the
towns of Zinchecra and Garama (Djerma) at family of the Severans also originated.
the latest since the 5th century BC, possibly
since the 9th century BC. From there they were driven out in the
11th century by the Arab Bedouins of the
They were horse breeders. By using chariots, Banu Hilal (24) (cf. Sloughi Review No.7)
they were able to subjugate the surrounding and were displaced into the areas of the
peoples. There are also rock drawings of the central Sahara. Today, their descendants,
Garamantes in the Sahara. the Tuareg, live in southern Algeria,
southern Libya, Mali, Niger and Burkina
The Garamantes dominated the early Trans- Faso (25). They are referred to there as
Saharan trade between the Mediterranean "whites".
coast and Lake Chad. Among other things,
they supplied wild animals for the Roman
circuses in exchange for luxury goods.
