What are the salt lakes in Tunisia commonly referred to as ?
The date palm " ( Phoenix dactylifera ) " may be indigenous to this district of the Jerid , as it is to countries of similar description in southern Morocco , southern Algeria , parts of the Tripolitania , Egypt , Mesopotamia , southern Persia and north - western India ; but that north of the latitude of the Jerid the date did not grow naturally in Mauretania , just as it was foreign to all parts of Europe , in which , as in true North Africa , its presence is due to the hand of man .