Modern accommodation of people of Sahara, their ethnic structure and cultural level are in direct communication with that history which they have passed.
Environment of desert allow the person to exist only in oases or in areas of dry valleys where the poor vegetation gives a forage to the limited number of pets. Therefore cattle breeding tribes live in Sahara. Camels, goats, sheeps, donkeys, and in southern areas as well large horned livestock make a basis of their existence. Trade has the certain economic value shall merge also dates.
In Sahara live the various ethnic groups of people differing from each other to racial, cultural and language attributes: Berbers, speaking Berber languages; Arabs and become by Arabs Berbers, speaking mainly Arabic; Ethiopians which Chadian-Hamitic language concerns to Sudanese languages; Negroids which in the language attitude assimilated with the former conquerors. Jews speak in Hebrew language, live in cities of oases, is frequent in separate quarters.
One of the most typical people of Sahara are tuaregs, wandering on uplands of the central Sahara and southern steppe areas. Seldom about any people legends and history, as about tuaregs - «hidden under a coverlet» men of Sahara are combined so much.
Once tuaregs owned large areas of Sahara, and their predatory attacks directed horror at neighbours. The greatest part tuaregs lives in saline steppes to the south of Sahara, their smaller number is the “real” inhabitants of deserts living to Ahaggar mountains and plateau Tassilin-Adzher.
There are numerous theories about an origin tuaregs.
Archive for Апрель, 2009
National park “Vitosha” Located all in Floor of hour of driving from Sofia, national park ” Vitosha ” is well-known for that the great variety of kinds of butterflies here lives, birds and mammals. The park has been opened in 1934. It borrows all mountain Vitosha on which slopes the Great Bulgarian wood there are dews well-known “? The fauna of park is exclusively rich, here it is possible to meet the wolf, a bear, even a wild cat, and also many less dangerous animals, such as a badger and a deer.
If you will want to have a rest by nature, you there and then can go on couple of days to Sofia - to look old city, to visit set of historical and cultural sights.
Vrachano-Balkan national park
Located in northwest of the country, this national park is well-known for the extensive woods, Magnificent mountain formations, falls, ancient caves. Long since it inspired the Bulgarian writers and involved set of tourists. In park there is a natural reserve ” Vratsa the Karst ” the Name of this reserve occurs from karst caves being here in which the great variety of bats lives. The rich flora of reserve totals over 700 kinds of plants, some of which are so rare, that are protected by the law. But the main place of an attraction are local caves. They carry such names, as ” Ledenika ” and “Tymnata Dupka”
