Zizau | |
Native Name: | Arabic: جيزاو |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Libya |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in libya |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Libya |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Fezzan |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Coordinates: | 25.9°N 24°W |
Zizau or Zezow[1] (Arabic: جيزاو) is a village in the Murzuk Desert in Murzuq District in southwest Libya. It is located east of Murzuk and just to the southwest of Funqul. A good high road is said to connect Zizau to Traghan, with frequent incrustations of salt.[1] The village was visited by western explorers in the early 1820s who described it at the time as having "merely a few huts".[2]