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WARGLA

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 325 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WARGLA , a See also:

town in the Algerian See also:Sahara, 175 m. S.W. of See also:Biskra on the See also:caravan route to the See also:Niger countries, and a starting-point for the exploration of the See also:southern See also:part of the Sahara. Pop. (1906) 3579, the See also:majority of mixed See also:Berber and See also:negro See also:blood. The town is walled and is entered by six gateways, which are fortified. The See also:French fort, See also:barracks, See also:hospital and other buildings are See also:south of the native town. Wargla lies in an See also:oasis containing many See also:palm trees. It claims to be the See also:oldest town in the Sahara, and was for a See also:long See also:time self-governing, but eventually placed itself under the See also:protection of the See also:sultan of See also:Morocco. The sultan, however, had ceased to have any See also:power in the town some time previous to the French occupation. Wargla was first occupied for the French in 1853 by native See also:allies, but it was not until 1872 that the authority. of See also:France was definitely established. The importance of the town as a trans-Saharan See also:trade centre has greatly declined since the suppression of slave-trading by the French. The oasis in which Wargla is situated contains two or three other small fortified ksurs or villages, the largest and most picturesque being Ruissat.

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total See also:population of the oasis is about 12,000.

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