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Timeline Of Benghazi
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Benghazi, Libya. Prior to 20th century * 7th century BCE - Euesperides founded by Cyrenians near site of present-day Benghazi. * 1517 CE - Cyrenaica becomes part of Ottoman Tripolitania. * 1577 - Atiq Mosque built. * 1816/1817 - occurs at the . * 1820 - Alhadadp Mosque founded.( ar) * 1827 - British consulate established. * 1858 - Plague outbreak. * 1869 - Administrative Benghazi mutessariflik (province) created. * 1874 - Plague outbreak. * 1895 ** built in Al-Berka. ** Italian "Società d'Esplorazione Commerciale in Africa" active in Benghazi. 20th century 1900s-1940s * 1906 - burns down. * 1911 ** 19 October: Town occupied by Italian forces during the Italo-Turkish War. ** Population: 35,000. * 1913 - Albergo Italia (hotel) built. * 1914 - begins operating. * 1916 - built. * 1922 - Benghazi Lighthouse built. * 1924 - City Hall built. * 1926 - begins operating. * 1927 ** begins operating. ** Catholic Apostoli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Touring Club Italiano
The Touring Club Italiano (TCI) (Italian Touring Club or Touring Club of Italy) is the major Italian national tourist organization. The Touring Club Ciclistico Italiano (TCCI) was founded on 8 November 1894 by a group of bicyclists to promote the values of cycling and travel; its founding president was . It published its first maps in 1897. By 1899, it had 16,000 members. With the new century, it promoted tourism in all its forms – including auto tourism – and the appreciation of the natural and urban environments. Under fascism, starting in 1937, it was forced to Italianize its name to the Consociazione Turistica Italiana. Through the years, it has produced a wide variety of maps, guidebooks, and more specialized studies, and is known for its high standard of cartography. Its detailed road maps of Italy are published at 1:200,000, one per region. Publishing activity Its most prestigious guidebooks are the "Guide Rosse" (not to be confused with the Michelin Red Guides), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashmolean Museum
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology () on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of Oxford in 1677. It is also the world's second university museum, after the establishment of the Kunstmuseum Basel in 1661 by the University of Basel. The present building was built between 1841 and 1845. The museum reopened in 2009 after a major redevelopment, and in November 2011, new galleries focusing on Egypt and Nubia were unveiled. In May 2016, the museum also opened redisplayed galleries of 19th-century art. History Broad Street The museum opened on 24 May 1683, with naturalist Robert Plot as the first keeper. The building on Broad Street (later known as the Old Ashmolean) is sometimes attributed to Sir Christopher Wren or Thomas Wood. Elias Ashmole had acquired the collection from the gardeners, travellers, and collectors Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Hilal SC (Benghazi)
Al-Hilal Sports Cultural & Social Club () also known as Al-Hilal Benghazi is a Libyan professional association football club based in Benghazi, Libya that competes in the Libyan Premier League. The club has witnessed huge development milestones at the level of infrastructure, strategic development plans and marketing under the leadership of the new board of directors (Nader Bushnaf) and the Sports Director Hossamedin Bedier. Bedier joined Al Hilal SC, as one of the biggest clubs in Libya. and became the youngest Director of Sports Development in Africa. This role was also in the difficult postwar context of the countrref> Image:Al-Hilal Benghazi.png, Former logo Image:Al-Hilal Benghazi (logo).png, Current logo Honours *Libyan Premier League :Runners-up (2): 1964–65, 2000 *Libyan Cup :Winners (1): 2000–02 :Runners-up (4): 1976–77, 1997–98, 2003–04, 2016-17, 2017-18 Performance in CAF competitions *CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 2 appearances ::2001 – First Round ::2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Ahly SC (Benghazi)
Al-Ahly Sports Cultural & Social Club () known as Al-Ahly SCSC is a Libyan Sports club based in Benghazi, Libya. Al-Ahly SC has its roots in a political party, the Omar al Mukhtar society. History Al-Ahly SC Libya was made a professional football club in 1947, although they had existed years before then. Al Ahly is the most supported club in Benghazi and is famous in Libya for its passionate, loyal and sometimes violent crowds, who stood by the club through frustrating times. . In 2000, the club's headquarters and training complex was demolished by the Libyan government, supposedly destroying records, trophies and medals of the club. The demolition was allegedly carried out in response to Al-Ahly fans insulting Saadi Gaddafi by dressing a donkey in a shirt baring his squad number, but other sources pointed to the burning a few days before of the Libyan Football Federation offices in Benghazi by angry Al-Ahly fans as the matter. The club was then given an indefinite ban which l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of El Agheila
The Battle of El Agheila was a brief engagement of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. It took place in December 1942 between Allied forces of the Eighth Army (General Bernard Montgomery) and the Axis forces The Axis powers, ; it, Potenze dell'Asse ; ja, 枢軸国 ''Sūjikukoku'', group=nb originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies. Its principal members were Na ... of the German-Italian ''Panzer'' Army ( Erwin Rommel), during the long Axis withdrawal from El Alamein to Tunis. It ended with the German-Italian ''Panzer'' Army resuming its retreat towards Tunisia, where the Tunisia Campaign had begun with Operation Torch Background On 4 November 1942, Rommel decided to end the Second Battle of El Alamein and withdraw west towards Libya. In doing so, he defied the "Stand to the last" orders of Adolf Hitler, to save the remainder of his force. The reached the village of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benghazi Cathedral
Benghazi Cathedral is a former Roman Catholic church in the city of Benghazi, Libya. It is located in the city center. History Benghazi Cathedral was built between 1929 and 1939 on land formerly occupied by Arabs, and was one of the largest churches in North Africa. Soon after King Idris took power in 1951, the building was slowly abandoned due to lack of maintenance. After Muamar Gadaffi took power and suppressed the Libyan Church, plans were made to convert the building into a Mosque, as with the Cathedral of Tripoli, but the cathedral's position prevented Imams from facing Mecca, and the plans were scrapped. The building was later used as a headquarters for the Arab Socialist Union. The Headquarters had already been abandoned by time of the Libyan Civil War, following several unsuccessful restoration efforts. The Cathedral survived the Battle of Benghazi (2014–2017) without major structural damage. As of 2020, the cathedral is still abandoned. Architectural features T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benghazi Province
Benghazi Province, or ''Provincia di Bengasi'' in Italian, was one of the provinces of Libya under Italian rule. It was established in 1937. Characteristics Benghazi Province was located in northern Italian Libya, in western Cyrenaica. Its administrative center was the city of Benghazi on the Mediterranean coast. It was divided in three sections ("Circondari" in Italian) called in Italian language: * Bengasi. * Agedabia * Barce The Italians conquered from the Ottomans in 1911 a region around Benghazi that was very poor and underdeveloped: it had no asphalted road, no telegraph services, no sewage systems, and no hospitals (in 1874 Benghazi had been depopulated by the bubonic plague). In ten years they built all these infrastructures and by the early 1930s a new port & airport and a railways station were created in Benghazi. Indeed in those years in Benghazi were created -for the first time in Cyrenaica's History- the first manufacturing industries, that included salt processi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Of Benghazi
The Port of Benghazi is a major seaport in the city of Benghazi, Libya, on the Mediterranean Sea coast within the Gulf of Sidra. History A natural seaport, it was founded as Euesperides by the ancient Greeks of Cyrenaica in the 6th century BC. After passing it to the Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy III, it was renamed Berenice to honor his wife. The city's current name honors benefactor Ghazi. From the third century onwards, it surpassed Barce and Cyrene as the region's main center. Under the kings of Libya, it was a joint capital with Tripoli, resulting today in state level institutions being located in the second city. This resulted in a rivalry, which being located in different tribal districts, was only intensified. Following a period of slow decline, it was redeveloped after occupation by the Italians in 1912, until the start of the World War II Western Desert campaign from 1942. This resulted in it becoming a hub in the eastern part of the Italian Libya Railways, connecting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suluq
Suluq ( ar, سلوق, Sulūq) is a town in the Benghazi District of the Cyrenaica region in northeastern Libya. It is located about 53 kilometers to the south-east of Benghazi. Italian Libya Suluq is the site of a former Italian concentration camp for the nomadic tribes that lived in Eastern Libya (Cyrenaica) during the colonial Italian North Africa and Italian Libya period. On 16 September 1931 Omar Mukhtar, the leader of the Libyan resistance movement, was hanged here. Suluq was the southern inland terminus of a short narrow gauge built by the Italian Libya Railways. This line was closed around the 1960s. Present day Suluq is on the crossroad of many roads connecting her with several inhabited places like: #Benghazi (to the north-west). #Al Abyar (to the north-east). # Qaminis (to the west). #El Magrun (to the south-west). # Zawiyat Msus (to the south-east). In 2009, 5,000 new housing units were built in Suluq. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Mukhtar
Omar al-Mukhṭār Muḥammad bin Farḥāṭ al-Manifī ( ar, عُمَر الْمُخْتَار مُحَمَّد بِن فَرْحَات الْمَنِفِي ; 20 August 1858 – 16 September 1931), called The Lion of the Desert, known among the colonial Italians as Matari of the Mnifa, was the leader of native resistance in Cyrenaica (currently Eastern Libya) under the Senussids, against the Italian colonization of Libya. A teacher-turned-general, Omar was also a prominent figure of the Senussi movement, and he is considered the national hero of Libya and a symbol of resistance in the Arab and Islamic worlds. Beginning in 1911, he organised and, for nearly twenty years, led the Libyan resistance movement against the Italian colonial empire during the First and Second Italo-Senussi Wars. After many attempts, the Italian Armed Forces managed to capture Al-Mukhtar near Slonta and hanged him in 1931 after he refused to surrender. Early life Omar Al-Mukhtar was born in 1858 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Oslo
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo ( la, Osloënsis) is an exempt diocese located in the city of Oslo in Norway. Parishes The territory is divided into 25 parishes, located in the following sites: Oslo (3), Moss, Askim, Fredrikstad, Halden, Lillestrøm, Hamar, Kongsvinger, Lillehammer, Jessheim, Hønefoss, Stabekk, Drammen, Fagernes, Tønsberg, Larvik, Sandefjord, Porsgrunn, Arendal, Kristiansand, Stavanger, Haugesund and Bergen. History By 1070, the see was established as the Diocese of Oslo, and the bishop was seated at St. Hallvard's Cathedral. In 1537 - in the course of the Lutheran Reformation in Denmark-Norway and Holstein - Christian III of Denmark suppressed the Catholic episcopates at the Norwegian sees. Thereafter Lutheranism prevailed in Scandinavia. In 1582 the stray Catholics in Norway and elsewhere in Northern Europe were placed under the jurisdiction of a papal nuncio in Cologne. The Congregation de propaganda fide, on its establishment in 1622, took cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
