Msus or Zawiyat Msus ( ar, زاوية مسوس), also Masous is a village in eastern Libya. It's located on the southeast of Benghazi, and far from

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 ca ...

on the same direction by . There is a road linking her to Suluq. It's also linked with

Charruba Charruba or Kharruba ( ar, الخروبة) is a village in Libya. It is located south of Al Marj, and west of Timimi. It's linked with Timimi by the Charruba-Timimi desert road, and with Tacnis Tacnis or Taknis, Tècnis, also is a small town ...

(about to the north) by another road. Msus had been a site of several battles between Italian colonial forces and Libyan resistance fighters, such as the one that took place on March 3, 1914, between the latter (withdrawing from the

Battle of Sceleildima A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size. A war usually consists of multiple battles. In general, a battle is a military engagement that is well defined in duration, area, and force ...

) and the former.Kalifa Tillisi, “Mu’jam Ma’arik Al Jihad fi Libia1911-1931”, Dar Ath Thaqafa, Beirut, Lebanon, 1973, p.263.

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