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 the east, Suda ...
. 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 Ghaz ...
.
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
Libya ( it, Libia; ar, ليبيا, Lībyā al-Īṭālīya) was a colony of the Fascist Italy (1922–1943), Fascist Italy located in North Africa, in what is now modern Libya, between 1934 and 1943. It was formed from the unification of the co ...
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, the leader of the
Libyan resistance movement, 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. This line was closed around the 1960s.
Present day
Suluq is on the crossroad of many roads connecting her with several inhabited places like:
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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 Ghaz ...
(to the north-west).
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Al Abyar (to the north-east).
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Qaminis
Qaminis or Ghemines ( ar, قمينس) is a small town adjacent to the Gulf of Sidra in the Cyrenaica region of northwestern Libya. It is located about to the south of Benghazi, and west of Suluq.
Qaminis was known Chaminos, before being conquer ...
(to the west).
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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 n ...
(to the south-west).
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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
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 ...
* Railway stations in Libya
There were few railway stations built in Libya during the 20th century. The ones that were built were done so by the Italians from the 1920s as part of their colonial administration. Today there are no functioning railway stations active in the cou ...
Notes
External links
Photograph of mosque in Suluq, 2006
from Flickr
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World War II sites in Libya
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