Djerba

  • Djerba is an island in the Bay of Syrtis Minor off the coast of Libya.
  • It was Roman Girba located in the Province of Tripolitana.

History

  • Pliny the Elder stated that the town of Meninx on the south east coast, was the second greatest producer of the purple dye Murex, after Tyre.
  • Djerba has the oldest known continuous Jewish population dating back 2,500 years. They date their arrival from the Destruction of the First Temple of Solomon in 586 BCE by Nebuchadnezzar II.

 

Djerba

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