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Douiret | |
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 Ruined Berber village of Douiret, with its prominent mosque. Photographed by Andy Carvin in November 2005. | |
  Douiret Location in Tunisia | |
| Coordinates: 32°52′N 10°17′E / 32.867°N 10.283°E | |
| Country |  Tunisia |
| Governorate | Tataouine Governorate |
| Time zone | UTC1 (CET) |
Douiret (Berber: Eddwirat or igherman, Arabic: دويرات) is a ruined Berber village in the Tataouine district in southern Tunisia. Located on a hilltop near a modern village of the same name, Douiret was a fortified granary, or ksar (plural ksour.) Like other ksour created by North African Berber communities, Douiret was built on a hilltop to help protect it from raiding parties. Douiret is a regular stop on southern Tunisia's ksar trail, along with the villages of Chenini, Ksar Ouled Soltane and Ksar Hadada.
The old village of Douiret is located 22 km southwest of Tataouine in a rugged mountainous region. The old village transformed into ruins is surmounted by its citadel or ksar overlooking troglodyte houses dug in the mountain and aligned in a meandering fashion along its cliff. A path of about 3 km is lined up with abandoned dwellings mostly in ruins with the exception of the eye-catching white mosque (known as 'the palm tree mosque' or Jamaa ennakhla) at midway and a couple of renovated dwellings serving as a showcase and/or an atypical motel to host visitors and tourists.