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Al Aan FM
Al Aan FM () is an interactive radio platform that broadcasts from Dubai - United Arab Emirates to the Arab world. It is an interactive podcast platform that meets the aspirations of listeners, offering podcast episodes of a variety of political, entertainment, social and youth, in addition to hours of live Broadcasting, broadcast from the event site. You can always listen to this radio channel through Al Aan FM broadcasting, FM Application. The app allows the user to listen to its programs over the phone and share episodes on social media as well. Launch Al Aan TV launched Al Aan FM in August 2012 in Libya, it launched in Syria in October 2012 broadcasting live from the UAE. Coverage and reach Another three hours of live are dedicated to both Libya and Syria highlighting the latest tweets@alaanfmradio. Al Aan FM has been launched to target the pan-Arab world via the Al Aan application. Key Podcast Programs * 'Marsad Al Jehadia'' () One of the most important programs on Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Aan TV
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Marj
Marj ( ar, المرج, Al Marǧ, The Meadows), also spelt ''El Merj'', generally believed to be on the site of the ancient city of Barca or Barce, is a city in northeastern Libya and the administrative seat of the Marj District. It lies in an upland valley separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a range of hills, part of the Jebel Akhdar Mountains. It has an estimated population of 85,315 (). There are a couple of banks on the main street and the main post office is in the city centre, not far from the Abu Bakr Assiddiq mosque.Pliez, Olivier (ed.) (2009) "Al Marj" ''Le Petit Futé Libye'' Petit Futé, Parisp. 237 ; in French History According to most archeologists, Marj marks the site of the ancient city of Barca, which, however, according to Alexander Graham, was at Tolmeita ( Ptolemais). Marj grew around a Turkish fort built in 1842 and now restored. During the colonial dominance of Libya (1913–41), the town was called Barce and was developed as an administrative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wazzin
Wazzin ( ar, وازن ') is a town in the western Tripolitania region at the western boundary of Libya. It serves as a Libya–Tunisia border, border crossing to Tunisia. The town is located south-inland from the Mediterranean Sea coast, and is west of Tripoli, Libya, Tripoli. Wazzin is in the desert near the western end of the Nafusa Mountains range, in the Nalut District. History Old town The town is the seat of Gasr Wazzin, which was built in 1482 CE (860 Hijri year, AH ''anno hegirae''). The Gasr has 360 rooms on 4 floors. The building has a rectangular shape, with a cistern for storing water in its center. It was used as a fortress and granary. The Gasr Wazzin is surrounded by the old town district of present-day Wazzin, whose buildings are mainly gypsum based masonry. A network of tunnels is below this historic portion, and is reserved for women traveling around the old town, without encountering non-familial men. 2011 Libyan civil war On 21 April 2011, during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waddan, Libya
Waddan ( ar, ودان, it, Ueddan) is an oasis town of the Sahara Desert in the northeast Fezzan region of southwest Libya. It is in the Jufra District. Geography Waddan is the oldest city in Jufra District located south of Sirte, and northeast of Hun. The town is at the crossroads of the Sirte-Waddan Road and the Fezzan Road. The natural springs support native date palm (''Phoenix dactylifera'') groves. History During the Libyan Civil War, NATO forces bombed an ammunition store in the town. On 8 September 2011, the town was reported to be under the control of forces allied with the National Transitional Council. References See also * List of cities in Libya This is a list of the 100 largest populated places in Libya. Some places in the list could be considered suburbs or neighborhoods of some large cities in the list, so this list is not definitive. ''Source:Amraja M. el Khajkhaj, "Noumou ... Populated places in Jufra District Oases of Libya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tripoli, Libya
Tripoli (; ar, طرابلس الغرب, translit= Ṭarābulus al-Gharb , translation=Western Tripoli) is the capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.1 million people in 2019. It is located in the northwest of Libya on the edge of the desert, on a point of rocky land projecting into the Mediterranean Sea and forming a bay. It includes the port of Tripoli and the country's largest commercial and manufacturing center. It is also the site of the University of Tripoli. The vast barracks, which includes the former family estate of Muammar Gaddafi, is also located in the city. Colonel Gaddafi largely ruled the country from his residence in this barracks. Tripoli was founded in the 7th century BC by the Phoenicians, who gave it the Libyco-Berber name ( xpu, 𐤅𐤉𐤏𐤕, ) before passing into the hands of the Greek rulers of Cyrenaica as Oea ( grc-gre, Ὀία, ). Due to the city's long history, there are many sites of archeological signi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susa, Libya
Susa or Soussa ( ; ar, سوسة, Sūsa; grc, Ἀπολλωνία, Apollōnía) is a town and seaside resort in the District of Jabal al Akhdar in north-eastern Libya. Susa stands by the ruins of Apollonia, Cyrenaica. The town contains the Apollonia Museum. It is located about 30 km northeast of Bayda. History The Ancient City of Apollonia in Cyrenaica was founded in 630 BC by Greek colonists and became a significant commercial centre in the southern Mediterranean. It served as the harbour of Cyrene, to the southwest. Apollonia became autonomous from Cyrene at latest by the time the area came within the power of Rome, when it was one of the five cities of the Libyan Pentapolis, growing in power until, in the sixth century A.D., it became the capital of the Roman province of Libya Superior or Libya Pentapolitana. The city became known as Sozusa, which explains the modern name of Marsa Susa or Susa, which grew up long after the cessation of urban life in the ancient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabratha
Sabratha ( ar, صبراتة, Ṣabrāta; also ''Sabratah'', ''Siburata''), in the Zawiya District''شعبيات الجماهيرية العظمى''Sha'biyat of Great Jamahiriya accessed 20 July 2009, in Arabic of , was the westernmost of the ancient "three cities" of Roman Tripolis, alongside and |
Nalut
Nalut (sometimes Lalút) ( ar, نالوت) is the capital of the Nalut District in Libya. Nalut lies approximately halfway between Tripoli and Ghadames, at the western end of the Nafusa Mountains coastal range, in the Tripolitania region. The town is a long-time Berber community and a cultural centre for them, with a festival held in the spring to revive and promote the local culture, traditions, industries and art of the Amazigh people. History Name The name Nalut and its alternate Lalut may derive from the pagan Berber goddess of springs, Tala. As Nalut is only 60 km from the Tunisian border and lies close to some oases it played an important part in the caravan trade. Architecture Nalut is home to the Qasr Nalut ⵣⴰⵙⵔⵓ ⵏ ⵏⴰⵍⵓⵜ, which is a granary fortified by a ksour (castle). The facility has been abandoned but is a tourist destination. The fortress was a communal building where the local families could store their grain in times of conflict. The A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Abraq, Libya
Al Abraq ( ar, الأبرق) is a town in Libya, in the Derna District. It is located 23 km east of Bayda, Other names include the transliterations Al Labrag, Al Labraq, Al Lazraq, and El-Abràgh, as well as the Italian Luigi di Savoia., United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency According to the census of 2006, the city had a population of 8861 people.Amraja M. el Khajkhaj, "Noumou al Mudon as Sagheera fi Libia", Dar as Saqia, Benghazi-2008, p.120. Transport The La Abraq Airport ( IATA code LAQ), which services the city of Bayda, is located 16 km west of the town of Al Abraq. References See also * List of cities in Libya This is a list of the 100 largest populated places in Libya. Some places in the list could be considered suburbs or neighborhoods of some large cities in the list, so this list is not definitive. ''Source:Amraja M. el Khajkhaj, "Noumou ... {{Darnah Populated places in Derna District Baladiyat of Libya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Misrata
Misrata ( ; also spelled Misurata or Misratah; ar, مصراتة, Miṣrāta ) is a city in the Misrata District in northwestern Libya, situated to the east of Tripoli and west of Benghazi on the Mediterranean coast near Cape Misrata. With a population of about 881,000, it is the third-largest city in Libya, after Tripoli and Benghazi. It is the capital city of the Misrata District and has been called the trade capital of Libya. The harbor is at Qasr Ahmad. Etymology The name "Misrata ⵎⵙⵔⴰⵜⴰ" derives from the Misrata tribe, a section of the larger Berber Hawwara confederacy, whose homeland in Antiquity and the early Islamic period was coastal Tripolitania.Deadly fighting rages in Libya's Bani Walid . '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kabaw
Kabaw, Kabao or Cabao ( ar, كاباو) is a town in the Nalut District in northwestern Libya. It lies just off the Gharyan–Nalut road and about west of Jadu,Ham, Anthony (2007) "Kabaw" ''Libya'' (second edition) Lonely Planet, Footscray, Victoria, Australiapage 162 on the northern edge of the Tripolitanian Plateau in the Nafusa Mountains. History Historically, Kabaw was a Berber town in the Ghadames administrative area. After World War II, it was occupied by the French military and governed from Tunisia ) , image_map = Tunisia location (orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = Location of Tunisia in northern Africa , image_map2 = , capital = Tunis , largest_city = capital , .... It was returned to Libyan control in 1951. Attractions Kabaw is home to the ''ghurfas'' or "Ksar Kabaw" a Berber hilltop village-fort, now abandoned. The ''ghurfas'' is built mainly of rock, gypsum and adobe, with doo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jadu, Libya
Jadu ( ; ar, جادو) is a mountain town in western Libya (Tripolitania), formerly in the Jabal al Gharbi District. Before the 2007 reorganization, and after 2015 it was part of Yafran District. Geography Jadu is located in the Nafusa Mountains, twenty-five kilometers southwest of Tarmeisa (طرميسة, Ţarmīşah). History Jadu was formerly the capital of the Nafusa Mountains District. Giado concentration camp Giado, as it was then known by its Italian name, was the site of an Italian concentration camp during the Second World War. In 1942, about 2,600 Jews and other people, who were considered undesirables, were rounded up throughout Libya and sent to the Giado camp. 564 died from typhus and other privations. The camp was liberated by the British Army in January 1943. Civil war Jadu's council rejected the draft 2017 constitution. In April 2020, local Amazigh forces were bombed at the end of the Second Libyan Civil War. See also * The Holocaust in Italian Libya * Lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
