al-Baida
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Arabic البيضاء al-Baida |
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| Coordinates | 32 ° 46 ′ N , 21 ° 45 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Libya | ||
| al-Jabal al-Achdar | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | LY-YES | ||
| Residents | 74,594 (2010) | ||
Al-Baida ( Arabic البيضاء, DMG al-Baiḍāʾ , Italian Beida ) is one of the largest cities in northeast Libya . It is located between Tobruk and Benghazi and has a population of 74,594, making it the second largest city in eastern Libya. Al-Baida is the capital of al-Jabal al-Achdar . The city has been the seat of the Libyan government and thus the provisional capital since August 2014, as the government had to flee from the actual capital Tripoli since 2014 in the course of the civil war in Libya .
history
Al-Baida was founded by Arabs near the ruins of the ancient Greek city of Cyrene .
Al-Baida was planned as the future capital of Libya under Idris I since 1964. Previously, Tripoli and Benghazi had alternated in this function every two years. During the last three years of his rule, the Libyan parliament was also in the city, until Idris was overthrown by Muammar al-Gaddafi in 1969 .
During the 2011 uprising in Libya , al-Baida declared itself the first city to be liberated. Fierce fighting broke out for three days, particularly around La Abraq airport . Mercenaries from Niger , Mali and Chad are said to have been involved on the part of the troops loyal to the government ; the 400 soldiers allegedly used bazookas, rockets and cannons and were commanded by As-Saadi al-Qaddhafi . The number of victims is said to be 63 dead and more than 400 injured. 35 mercenaries were killed in the fighting and two were taken prisoner.
economy
There are factories for animal feed, milk and fruit juices in al-Baida.
La Abraq Airport is to the east of the city .
There is a university in al-Baida. This is housed in a former royal palace and the university staff mainly teach agricultural science.
politics
Al-Baida is considered the focus of Islamism in Libya.
sons and daughters of the town
Web links
- Future work in the summer of the dictator Article by Rainer Hermann in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from March 31, 2011 (Political developments in Al-Baida during the civil war 2011)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Martin Gehlen: The young power in Libya. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . February 25, 2011, accessed February 28, 2011 .
- ↑ bevoelkerungsstatistik.de: ( page no longer available , search in web archives: bevoelkerungsstatistik.de ) , accessed on February 4, 2011
- ↑ Martin Gehlen: Gaddafi's top enemy. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . March 9, 2011, accessed March 10, 2011 .
- ↑ Alan J. Kuperman: America's Little-Known Mission to Support Al Qaeda's Role in Libya , nationalinterest.org August 13, 2019.