Zelten

Then, in April 1959, at a spot called Zelten, about a hundred miles south of the Mediterranean coast, Standard Oil of New Jersey made a big strike.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

Then, in April 1959, at a spot called Zelten, about a hundred miles south of the Mediterranean coast, Standard Oil of New Jersey made a big strike.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

In their splendid flat in the Tiergarten (the so-called “Reichstagspräsidentenwohnung,” In den Zelten 23), where the Bernsteins lived in the 1880s, Felicie Bernstein and her family received numerous interesting guests, among them famous university professors, writers, musicians, painters and art historians.

Felicie Bernstein. 2009

Libya's proven natural gas reserves as of January 1, 2006 were estimated at 53 Tcf by the Oil and Gas Journal, but the country's actual gas reserves are largely unexploited (and unexplored), and thought by Libyan experts to be considerably larger, possibly 70-100 Tcf. Major producing fields include Attahadi, Defa-Waha, Hatiba, Zelten, Sahl, and Assumud.

Energy profile of Libya 2008

Libya's first oil fields were discovered in 1959 (at Amal and Zelten – now known as Nasser), and oil exports began in 1961.

Energy profile of Libya 2008

Page 160 hätten, wir von andern nichts zu beförchten; So fuhren wir ordentlich hinauf, hatte lang nicht geregnet, das Wasser wahre nicht dief, der Strohm oder Lauf des Wassers ward nicht starck, den ganzen Tag wahren wir auf der Rivier, des Nachts Spannten wir unsre Zelten auf dem Land nach beim Wasser, und Ruheten, dess Morgens früh fuhren wir wider fort.

Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois 1920

Zelten ... at a preposterous rate of exchange, be it said.

The Man with the Clubfoot Valentine Williams 1914

It looked as though I should have to hang about the cafés and night restaurants until morning, investigate the clue of the street called In den Zelten, and then get away from Berlin as fast as ever I could.

The Man with the Clubfoot Valentine Williams 1914

For the street called In den Zelten was my next objective.

The Man with the Clubfoot Valentine Williams 1914

In den Zelten, I discovered, on referring to the directory again, derived its name "In the Tents," from the fact that in earlier days a number of open-air beer-gardens and booths had occupied the site which faces the northern side of the Tiergarten.

The Man with the Clubfoot Valentine Williams 1914