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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Doug Murray <doug@d...> wrote:
>
> I am trying to track down some information on a ghost town on the
> Algeria-Morocco frontier. Here is what I know from a friend of
mine:
>
> >> ... The ghost town in the Sahara was called Tmardanit, or so
our
> >> guides told us. It's located in an area of desert known as the
> >> Merdani (just east of the Erg Chebbi dunes). It is several miles
west
> >> of a tiny town called Merzouga which is just south of a larger
town
> >> called Erfoud (just below the 32ndparallel on the
Morroco/Algerian
> >> border). I know the mayor of Merzouga and he would be a
natural font
> >> of information on what happened in that area in the 40s and 50s.
> >> Bedouin sometimes still visit the abandoned villages.
>
> Does anyone have anything to add?
yes
why do you ask
or what is your quest about or for
>
> Cheers!
>
> Doug