Suluq ( ar, سلوق, Sulūq) is a town in the

Benghazi District Benghazi () , ; it, Bengasi; tr, Bingazi; ber, Bernîk, script=Latn; also: ''Bengasi'', ''Benghasi'', ''Banghāzī'', ''Binghāzī'', ''Bengazi''; grc, Βερενίκη (''Berenice'') and ''Hesperides''., group=note (''lit. Son of he Ghazi ...

of the

Cyrenaica Cyrenaica ( ) or Kyrenaika ( ar, برقة, Barqah, grc-koi, Κυρηναϊκή ��παρχίαKurēnaïkḗ parkhíā}, after the city of Cyrene), is the eastern region of Libya. Cyrenaica includes all of the eastern part of Libya between ...

region in northeastern

Libya Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya bo ...

. It is located about 53 kilometers to the south-east of

Benghazi Benghazi () , ; it, Bengasi; tr, Bingazi; ber, Bernîk, script=Latn; also: ''Bengasi'', ''Benghasi'', ''Banghāzī'', ''Binghāzī'', ''Bengazi''; grc, Βερενίκη (''Berenice'') and ''Hesperides''., group=note (''lit. Son of he Ghazi ...

Italian Libya

Suluq is the site of a former Italian concentration camp for the

nomadic tribe A nomad is a member of a community without fixed habitation who regularly moves to and from the same areas. Such groups include hunter-gatherers, pastoral nomads (owning livestock), tinkers and trader nomads. In the twentieth century, the pop ...

s that lived in Eastern Libya (Cyrenaica) during the colonial Italian North Africa and

Italian Libya Libya ( it, Libia; ar, ليبيا, Lībyā al-Īṭālīya) was a colony of the Fascist Italy located in North Africa, in what is now modern Libya, between 1934 and 1943. It was formed from the unification of the colonies of Italian Cyrenaica ...

period. On 16 September 1931

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 leader of the

Libyan resistance movement The Libyan resistance movement was the rebel force opposing the Italian Empire during its Pacification of Libya between 1923 and 1932. History First years The Libyan resistance, associated with the Senussi Order, was initially led by Omar Muk ...

, was hanged here. Suluq was the southern inland terminus of a short

narrow gauge A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structu ...

built by the

Italian Libya Railways Italian Libya Railways was a group of small railways built in the Italian colony of Libya between the two World Wars. History The Kingdom of Italy built in Italian Libya nearly 400 km of railways with gauge. Projects The Italian authorit ...

. This line was closed around the 1960s.

Present day

Suluq is on the crossroad of many roads connecting her with several inhabited places like: #

(to the north-west). #

Al Abyar Abyar (al-Abyā) ( ar, الأبيار ') is a town in the Marj District, Libya, roughly 50 km to the east of the city of Benghazi and 42 km southwest of the city of Marj. (), its estimated population was 32,563. History The town is the ...

(to the north-east). # Qaminis (to the west). #

El Magrun El Magrun( ar, المقرون) is a village in the Benghazi District, of the Cyrenaica region in northeastern Libya. History El Magrun was named after Sidi Ahmed El Magrun. El Magrun is the site of a former Italian concentration camp for the no ...

(to the south-west). # Zawiyat Msus (to the south-east). In 2009, 5,000 new housing units were built in Suluq."اللجنة الشعبية العامة" ("General People's Committee")
Benghazi, in Arabic, accessed 25 May 2009

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Photograph of mosque in Suluq, 2006
from Flickr {{Benghazi District Populated places in Benghazi District Italian Libya Italian concentration camps Cyrenaica World War II sites in Libya Baladiyat of Libya

Italian Libya

Present day

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