al-Jaghbub
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Coordinates | 29 ° 45 ′ N , 24 ° 31 ′ E | |
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Country | Libya | |
al-butnane | ||
ISO 3166-2 | LY-BU | |
Residents | 3000 | |
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Al-Jaghbub ( Arabic الجغبوب, DMG al-Ǧaġbūb ; English Jaghbub , Italian Giarabub , also: Jarabub ) is a small oasis town in the east of Libya in the municipality of al-Butnan with around 3000 inhabitants.
location
A road connects the oasis with Tobruk, 290 km to the north . The Egyptian oasis settlement Siwa is closer than all Libyan settlements and oases . The water supply to the oasis comes from fossil water , which enables the cultivation of date palms.
history
The oasis is on an old caravan and pilgrimage route. From 1856 it became a center of the Senussi Brotherhood after the original Brotherhood center in al-Baida had to be abandoned due to attacks by Ottoman forces. The Sanussiya Order had a large following in North Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries and for a long time held religious, economic and military control over the northeastern Sahara .
The brotherhood had the city fortified with a wall and set up a Koran school and library there. It was dominated to the present day by the grave of the founder of the order, Sīdī Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Sanūsī al-Kabīr ( Muhammad as-Sanussi ), (1791-1859), the grandfather of King Idris I , who was deposed from Gaddafi , who in 1859 in Al-Jaghbub died.
The Italian garrison held the oasis from December 1940 to April 1941 when the British captured the oasis.
During the Libyan-Egyptian border war in July 1977, military installations in the oasis were attacked by the Egyptian air force.
In 1984 the place came into public interest when the Libyan government under Muammar al-Gaddafi had the grave of Muhamed as-Sanussi blown up, which was considered a pilgrimage site for the Islamic Orthodox opposition.
In the Libyan February revolution , al-Jaghbub renounced himself from the government in Tripoli on February 21, 2011, just 4 days after the outbreak of the uprising .
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Monthly average temperatures and rainfall for al-Jaghbub
Source: wetterkontor.de
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literature
- Joachim Willeitner: Libya. Tripolitania, Syrtebogen, Fezzan and the Cyrenaica. Cologne 2011. ISBN 978-3-7701-4876-9