Garian

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Old town in the 1940s

Garian ( Arabic غريان Ghariyan , Central Atlas Tamazight ⵖⵔⵢⴰⵏ Ɣeryan ; also Garjan ) is a Berber town in northwestern Libya , in the Gebel Garbi district . Prior to 2007 it was the administrative seat of Garian District. Garian is at an altitude of 700 m one of the largest cities in the Nafusa Mountains , an area that is mainly populated by Berbers. In 2011 the city had 38,740 inhabitants.

history

Garian was on the trade routes both south of Fezzan and over the Nafusa Mountains. In 1884 the Ottomans established a mayor's office and a city council in Garian.

Transport and Economy

In the 1920s the Italian colonial rulers built a 90 km long railway line between Tripoli and a village near Garian, which was destroyed by British combat bomb squadrons during World War II .

Grains and figs are grown for local consumption, and olives and saffron are grown both for local consumption and for export.

See also

• List of cities in Libya
• Rail transport in Libya

Web links

Commons : Garian  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfram Alpha . Retrieved October 12, 2011.
2. ^ World Gazetteer: Libya: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population . Retrieved October 15, 2011.
3. ^ ^{A b} Lisa Anderson: Nineteenth-Century Reform in Ottoman Libya . In: International Journal of Middle East Studies . No. 16 (3), 1984, pp. 325-348, 331.
4. ↑ Le ferrovie nell'Africa italiana: aspetti economici, sociali e strategici . ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 206 kB; Italian)  

Coordinates: 32 ° 10 ′  N , 13 ° 1 ′  E