Djanet

Djanet is an oasis metropolis, and capital of Djanet District, in Illizi Province, southeast Algeria. It is placed 412 km south of the provincial capital, Illizi. According to the 2008 census it has a populace of 14,655, up from 9,699 in 1998, and an annual populace increase fee of 4.3 according to cent. It is inhabited by using the Kel Ajjer Tuareg humans. The location of Djanet has been inhabited given that Neolithic times. There had been intervals of 10000 years at a time that the region become no longer desolate tract.

The plants and fauna have been luxuriant as is seen inside the numerous rock paintings of Tassili n'Ajjer round Djanet. Populations of hunter-gatherers lived there. Djanet changed into founded within the Middle Ages via the Tuareg. The Ottoman Empire, which had a nominal authority over the Fezzan location, bolstered their presence inside the area at the beginning of the 20th century in reaction to the colonization of Africa with the aid of the Europeans.