Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Morocco-Algeria
Date: Jan 08, 2004 @ 23:48
Author: Doug Murray (Doug Murray <doug@...>)
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Just looking for more information as to how close this town is to the
border and if anyone seen info on it online.




On Thursday, January 8, 2004, at 08:15 AM, m06079 wrote:

> --- In 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
>
>
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