Ottoman Fezzan

Mavi Boncuk |Fezzan (Arabic: فزان‎ Fizzān, Berber: Fezzan, Turkish: Fizan, Latin: Phasania) is a south western region of modern Libya. It is largely desert but broken by mountains, uplands, and dry river valleys (wadis) in the north, where oases enable ancient towns and villages to survive deep in the otherwise inhospitable Sahara. Fezzan was formerly a province under the Ottoman Turks and Italy, and a governorate (muhafazah or wilayah) of Libya (alongside Tripolitania and Cyrenaica) in the system of administrative divisions abolished in 1983 in favour of smaller districts or baladiyah. The Baladiyat-system was reorganized in 1987 and was replaced in 1995 by the Sha'biyat-system.

The former Fezzan province contains the districts (Sha'biyat) of Wadi Al Shatii, Wadi Al Hayaa, Al Jufrah, Ghadamis, Murzuq, Sabha and Ghat (other maps allocate Ghadamis to the neighbouring region of Tripolitania). The largest city, political and administrative centre and historic capital is Sabha.