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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Trollkillah # Ish Gebor: [QB] It's being said that the Sokna people (Berber) are exin Not a valid archeology or anthropology website. Nevertheless, lets review what they say: [QUOTE] Sokna Castle, surrounded by walls, is made up of two and three-story buildings, each arranged around a well in a wide courtyard: in the past, the courtyard was used as a safe shelter for soldiers and animals. Thanks to its precious reserves of high quality water, Sokna was for a long time the political capital of the area. The Caimacan, the Ottoman Grand Vizier's Lieutenant, ruled over the entire Al Jufrah region. His capital was in the Sokna fortress throughout the three centuries of Turkish rule: from the early 17th century till 1929, the year when Italy consolidated its occupation. At the foot of the hills on which the castle is built, lies the area where a daily date market is still held today. Sokna, on the route leading to the greater Sahara desert, was visited by many European explorers in the 19th century, as they set off on their journeys into the desert. References to Al Jufrah can be found in many diaries and travel notes by these geographers, although they may not all have been fully aware of how useful their accounts would be for those who planned the political and military colonial adventures that followed. [/QUOTE] http://www.libyandates.com/english/oases_sokna_al_jufrah_libya.html Here is the Appleton museum of art: (Portrait of Nessim-Bey, The Asian Campaign) Antoine-Jean-Etienne Faivre French, 1830-1905 Oil on canvas Gift of Arthur I. Appleton [IMG]http://www.appletonmuseum.org/artifacts/images/g12467.png[/IMG] [QUOTE] Faivre was a skilled and highly respected portrait artist and his works were often displayed in Paris and London. This portrait of Nessim-Bey, in its original frame, was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1855. Nessim-Bey obtained increased ranks (Bimbashi then Caimacan) of the Bashi Bazouks of the Turkish Army. Bashi-bazouks (in Turkish başıbozuk, meaning "one with an unsound mind") were irregular, mounted mercenaries in the Ottoman army during the nineteenth century, infamous for their plundering proclivities. Charles Carroll Tevis (also known as Washington Carroll Tevis) was a soldier of fortune, fighting for hire in France, Egypt, and Turkey. A graduate of West Point in 1849, he resigned from the U.S. Army in 1850 to join the Turkish army under the name of Nessim-Bey. Following his adventures in Turkey he went to Paris, then returned to the U.S. during the Civil War (July 1863 as Lieutenant-Colonel; Colonel Dec.1863) where he became a Brevet Brigadier General of volunteers for war service (March 1865) for gallant and meritorious services during the war. He was discharged in July of 1864. [/QUOTE] http://www.appletonmuseum.org/artifacts/g12467.html [/QB][/QUOTE]
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