Zizau

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|name = Zizau

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|native_name = {{lang|ar|جيزاو}}

|settlement_type =Village

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|pushpin_map = Libya

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|subdivision_name = {{flag|Libya}}

|subdivision_type1 = Region

|subdivision_name1 = Fezzan

|subdivision_type2 = District

|subdivision_name2 = Murzuq

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Zizau or Zezow{{cite book|last1=Hornemann|first1=Friedrich|last2=Laing|first2=Alexander Gordon|title=Missions to the Niger|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OMxiAAAAMAAJ|access-date=18 September 2011|year=1964|publisher=Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press}} ({{langx|ar|جيزاو}}) is a village in the Murzuk Desert in Murzuq District in southwest Libya. It is located east of Murzuk and just to the southwest of Funqul.{{fact|date=August 2019}} A good high road is said to connect Zizau to Traghan, with frequent incrustations of salt. The village was visited by western explorers in 1822-24 who described it at the time as having "merely a few huts".{{cite book|last1=Denham|first1=Dixon|last2=Clapperton|first2=Hugh|last3=Oudney|first3=Walter|title=Narrative of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa: in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JMENAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1|access-date=18 September 2011|year=1826|publisher=John Murray}}