The southwestern desert, known as Fezzan, was administered separately during both the Italian regime and the federal period of the Libyan monarchy.

Makhad is also famous in the region for originating a popular desert known as Makhaddi Halwa.

Prologue - Love at First 1 was driving alone, on a moonless night, along the rim of the vast desert known as the Empty Quarter.

Kynes stared southward across the ocean of sand to the world-girdling desert known as the Funeral Plain.

A vast sea of sand dunes covers much of southern Dubai, and eventually leads into the desert known as The Empty Quarter.

The Nazca made enigmatic giant designs in the desert, known as the Nazca Lines.

The Byzantines' ally was a Christian Arabic tribe from the frontiers of the desert known as the Ghassanids.

The once-fertile farmlands surrounding the city became a desert known as the Barrier.

Tradition held that from the Gateway, Surak had begun his journey of enlightenment through the desert known as the Forge.

The earliest inhabitants of the desert known by name are those of the Tehuelche complex.