Jadu or Gado ( ; ;; ; ) is a mountain town in western
Libya
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(
Tripolitania
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The region had been settled since antiquity, first coming to prominence as part of the Carthaginian empire. Following the defeat ...
), 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 (, ''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 by Italians, 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
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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
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.
See also
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The Holocaust in Italian Libya
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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 ...
References
External links
"Jadu, Libya" Falling Rain Genomics, Inc.
Populated places in Jabal al Gharbi District
Libya in World War II
Antisemitism in Italy
Jews and Judaism in Italy
Concentration camps
A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploit ...
Concentration camps
A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploit ...
Concentration camps
A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploit ...
The Holocaust in Italy
Concentration camps
A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploit ...
World War II concentration camps
Baladiyat of Libya
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