Traghan was founded by the
Saifawa dynasty around the 13th century, a remarkable feat as Traghan lies 1,380 kilometres from
Njimi, the Saifawa capital. The Saifawa were said to have "gained control of the
Fezzan by establishing a post in the oasis of Traghan about twenty miles east of modern
Murzuk and some seventy miles west-south-west of ancient
Zawila." Traghan was approached by western explorers on 29 November 1822. In the late 1820s, Traghan was described as was formerly as considerable a place as
Murzuk; and was, about sixty years ago, the residence of a sultan, who governed eastern Fezzan. It was described as being in a flat, desert plain, with gardens and date groves. It contained four mosques with small mud minarets and houses that were mostly large but in ruin. The town was the
site of a battle between the
Libyan National Army and
Chadian militants in 2018 during the
Second Libyan Civil War. ==References==