It is a small town, located in the Fezzan region in southern Libya, at an altitude of approximately 420 m above sea level. Taraghin extends 55 km east of Murzuq, 770 km away from Tripoli on the Misrata-Jufra road, and Sabha is 145 km north of it. 
Traghen controls some of trade caravan routes that connect it to other oases of the Fezzan region, including the northern road through Sabha, as well as the road that passes through Traghen towards the east to Zuweila, and to Tamsa, and on the same road near Hamira located 50 km east of Traghen, then the road to Qatroun and Chad branch off from it. 
In addition to the importance of Traghen's geographical location, it is characterized by the fertility of its land and the abundance of its fresh groundwater, some of them are completely fresh and others are salty or limey, but the water springs in Traghen are rarely found, and the most abundant of them was the spring of Traghen and it was called Ain Qandarieh. 
The fame of the Traghen region for the abundance of water and its proximity to the surface of the ground is what undoubtedly helped the growth thousands of palm trees in it, with high-quality varieties dates that provided food for the inhabitants and the caravans passing through them.

History 

Traghen by the 13th century was dominated by the Saifawa dynasty, The Saifawa were said to have gained control of the Fezzan by establishing a post in the oasis of Traghen about twenty miles east of modern Murzuq and some seventy miles west-south-west of ancient Zawila. 
It was approached by western explorers on 29 November 1822. In the late 1820s, it was about sixty years ago, the residence of a sultan, who governed eastern Fezzan.  
Major Denham noted that the people of Traghen were exceptionally skilled in carpet making and their carpets rivaled those of Constantinople. Also Hugh Murray later noted its fine carpets in the early 1850s.

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