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Is it all only Desert?

von Rolf Bächtiger und Oliver Eberhardt, Fotos: Bächtiger Deutsche Version

 

Sloughis belong (besides Saluki, Azawakh and Afghan) to the group of Oriental sighthounds. The Orient encloses the whole Arabic World, from North Africa up to the South-west of Asia and is most of all formed by the Islamic Religion.

Tunisia may also look like this: green fields - Can you see the palm-tree in the middle of the lower part of the picture?
Tunisia may also look like this: green fields - Can you see the palm-tree in the middle of the lower part of the picture?

Now we want to take a closer Look at the Regions of Origin of the Sloughi in our "Sloughi World." That is why we will introduce the Maghreb countries a little more precisely in the following editions. Maghreb (= the country in the west, where the sun sets) is a District within the Orient, that is formed by the European - Mediterranean and the Arabic - Oriental influence. The Maghreb countries are: Morocco , Algeria and Tunisia. All three of them were once under French colonial rule.

Tunisia - a country in North Africa, what does it look like there geographically? First we imagine that the country must be covered with a large desert?

 

Just in Tunisia the exchange of Mediterranean and Saharanean influence in an overlooking frame is particularly evident. It is located in the change-over from the Mediterranean to the Arabic cultural sphere, and is geographically looked at a Meditarranean humid northern region with steppe and desert.

A step region in the centre of Tunisia, shortly before a sandstorm.
A step region in the centre of Tunisia, shortly before a sandstorm.
The agrarian landscape in the humid coast-regions is very much Mediterranean formed, but in the steppes and in the direction to the Sahara, oasis' form the prospect. Another landscape-unity forms the steppe-region, the western Haute-Steppe, situated 300-700 m above sea level. Beside it one can see the lowland steppe (Basse Steppe) and the Sahel-Region at the eastcoast. The climate in the highland-steppe is continental with relatively chilly winters and a rainfall of 200 - 450 mm. Rolf Bächtiger ( el Djerid Sloughis - Switzerland) learned this this year also on his Tunisia-journey. When he left his tent in the morning, the desert around him was covered with hoar-frost!
 

Mountain-region - hard stony ground, that presumes big and
Mountain-region - hard stony ground, that presumes big and
strong paws of Sloughis

But there is less rainfall in the lowland-steppe. In the north corn is grown and in the south where the ground is lighter fruit-growing prevails. In the Sahel of Sousse you can find olive-trees mainly. And then south of Gafsa the ecologically dry Tunisia begins, trees and corngrowing are hardly possible. Here the desert-steppes prevail which then turn over to desert. The desert stretches as far as to the northern edge of the "Schott el djerid" respectively the "Schott el Fedjedij", large mostly dry salt-lakes.

Around the salt-lake of the "Schott el Djerid" there are the most important Tunisian Sahara-Oasis'. Huge date-palm-forests form this agrarian structure.

Naturally - Sand as far as one can see. Dark-red soil
Naturally - Sand as far as one can see. Dark-red soil


 

 

   

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