az-Zawiya

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الزاويه الغربيه
az-Zawiya
az-Zawiya (Libya)
az-Zawiya
az-Zawiya
Coordinates 32 ° 45 '  N , 12 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 32 ° 45 '  N , 12 ° 43'  E
Basic data
Country Libya

Shaʿbiyya

az-Zawiya
ISO 3166-2 LY-ZA
Residents 198,567 (2008 (calculated))
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Az-Zawiya ( Arabic الزاوية, DMG az-Zāwiya or az-Zawiya al-Gharbiyya  /الزاوية الغربية / az-Zāwiya al-Ġarbīya ; Italian Ez Zauia ), also al-Sawija or simply Sawija , is a city in northwest Libya on the Mediterranean coast, about 50 km west of Tripoli . It is also the capital of the municipality of az-Zawiya .

Az-Zawiya is close to an oil field , has an oil port and had the country's first oil refinery. Agriculture can be practiced through extensive groundwater sources ; mainly potatoes , onions and tomatoes are grown. The great coastal road of Libya runs through the city.

history

In 1988 the Seventh of April University was founded in the city.

During the civil war in Libya from February 17, 2011, Zaviya was one of the centers of the uprising in the west of the country and the westernmost city in the hands of the rebels. It was then the scene of fierce fighting and after two weeks it was retaken by government troops on March 10th. Troops of the elite Khamis Brigade , which used tanks and armored personnel carriers, are said to have participated in the capture of the city .

In mid-August 2011, the city was re-conquered by rebel troops. This was followed by the largely bloodless capture of Tripoli, also starting on August 20th.

In 2015 Az-Zawiya became a center of the trafficking business on the Libyan coast. The Nasr Brigade rules in Az-Zawiya , headed by the brothers Mohamed and Walid Koshlaf. The city's port was conquered by the warlord Aburrahman Milad in 2015 and has been controlled by the Zawiya Libyan Coast Guard, which he founded .

sons and daughters of the town

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Spiegel.de: Rebels strike back Gaddafi troops
  2. ↑ WITNESS - Broken, Zawiyah back in Gaddafi hands. In: reuters.com. March 12, 2011, accessed May 29, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Kadhafi's elite forces key to Libya conflict: experts. In: AFP. March 14, 2011, accessed May 29, 2011 .
  4. ↑ a b c Thomas Gutschker: The current dries up, in: FAS No. 35, September 3, 2017, p. 2.
  5. ↑ according to the UN Security Council resolution, the international spelling is: Mohammed Kachlaf [1] UN dated June 7, 2018