Djerid

el-Djerid, al-Jarīd (Arabic: الجريد‎; "Palm Leaf", Darija l-Jrīd) is a semidesert natural region comprising southern Tunisia and adjacent parts of Algeria and Libya.

Geography

The region is characterised by bare pink hills with oases and several chotts (salt pans) such as Chott el Djerid in Tunisia. Economically the area is important for phosphate mining. Major towns include Gafsa and Tozeur.

It remains the principal center of Ibāḍism in North Africa, with remaining Ibāḍī communities on Djerba in Tunisia, in the M'zab in Algeria, and in Jabal Nafusa in Libya. In medieval times, it often formed a politically separate entity under the control of Ibāḍī imams.

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Media related to Djerid at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 33°54′58″N 8°00′24″E / 33.91611°N 8.00667°E / 33.91611; 8.00667

Djerid (weapon)

Djerid (also jarid, jered) is a type of throwing spear about 3 ft. long, usually with a wooden haft and small steel head but sometimes all steel used for hunting and warfare.Arab in origin, it was used in Asia Minor, India and Africa; later in Rus' and other eastern Europe, including Poland. Sometimes several weapons were carried in a quiver.

A mounted combat game, the Jarid Bazi, was played by the Biluchis, but here the jarid is described as a long spear.

A similar game, involving the thrown djerid, was observed being played by the Pasha of Jerusalem and his officers and attendants by Lt. William Francis Lynch in the 19th century.

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