Murzuq, is a town in south western Libya. with Sabha, it is one of the chief settlements of the Fazzan municipality. Murzuq developed around a fort built c.1310
From an old descriptive: Murzuk, present capital of Fezzan, has the advantage of being situated in the center of the country. Nevertheless, it seems strange that its rulers should have selected such a place for their residence. In the hot season nearly all strangers, even the Negroes, are attacked by ague; and till recently the whites were allowed to reside in the town only during the three winter months, not through any solicitude for their health, but from the prevalent idea that their bodies fomented and rendered more fatal the miasmatic exhalations. In the cemetery to the east of the town is shown the tomb of the traveler Ritchie.