Tozeur

Tunisia's state news agency TAP said he and two associates were sentenced Thursday to six months' imprisonment for illegal entry after being found in the province of Tozeur.

Libyans Take Gadhafi Town Yaroslav Trofimov 2011

The town, 23 kilometers from Tozeur, is a cluster of modest, cube-shaped, flat-roofed, ocher-clay houses, and you ' ll still find local farmers leading their donkeys down the dusty streets.

Matali Crasset Lanie Goodman 2010

In April 2005, the U. A.E.'s Mabdallah Saad al-Thani Corporation announced a five-year exploration agreement with ETAP for the El Jem block, while U. S.-based Rigo Oil Company announced an exploration agreement for the Tozeur-Sud block.

Energy profile of Tunisia 2007

"Star Wars" fans from all over the world are discovering the desert near Tozeur, in southern Tunisia.

CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2001 2001

All too soon, I fear, the railway to Tozeur will have done its work; dusty boulevards, white bungalows, eucalyptus trees and _bureaux de monopoles_ will profane its strangely wonderful beauty, its virginal monotone of golden grey.

Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910

There is a daily recurring spectacle at Tozeur which enchanted me: the camping ground at dawn.

Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910

Straining my eyes at the water-shed beyond El-Hamma, whence one has the first view of Tozeur and its palm forest, I thought to detect, at an immeasurable distance, two minute dusky streaks, swimming in air -- other oases, no doubt.

Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910

For it was my intention to go from England straight down to the oases of the Djerid, Tozeur and Nefta, a corner of Tunisia left unexplored during my last visit to that country -- there, where the inland regions shelve down towards those mysterious depressions, the Chotts, dried-up oceans, they say, where in olden days the fleets of Atlantis rode at anchor ....

Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910

Tozeur is lacking; there is too much riot and opulence, too many voluptuous festoons and spears and spirals, a certain craving, so to speak, after the purely ornate: if Tozeur represents the decorative style of Louis Quatorze, this is assuredly Louis Seize.

Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910

The export of these dates has been going on for centuries; in 1068 the geographer Bekri wrote that almost every day a thousand camels, or even more, leave Tozeur loaded with dates, and the trade will become still livelier when they have finished building the railway which is to connect this place with the present terminus Metlaoui.

Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910