Tagiura
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تاجوراء Tagiura |
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| Coordinates | 32 ° 53 ' N , 13 ° 20' E | ||
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| Country | Libya | ||
| Tripoli | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | LY-TB | ||
| height | 6 m | ||
| Residents | 48,836 (2006) | ||
Tagiura ( Arabic تاجوراء Tādschūrā ' , also Tajoura ) is a city in Libya on the Mediterranean coast in the municipality of Tripoli , 14 km east of Tripoli and in the Tripolitania region.
From 2001 to 2007 Tagiura was the capital of the Tagiura wa Arba district .
history
The Ottoman Turks established a base in Tagiura in 1531.
Tagiura was the center of nuclear research in Libya, with a 10-megawatt reactor built by the Soviet Union that went into operation in 1981.
In early July 2019, during the civil war in Libya , an air strike hit a refugee detention center in Tagiura and 53 people were killed. Both parties to the civil war accused each other of being responsible for the attack.
Individual evidence
- ↑ شعبيات الجماهيرية العظمى( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Anthony Ham: East of Tripoli: Tajura to Al-Khoms . In: Libya . Lonely Planet, Hawthorn (Victoria / Canada) 2002, ISBN 0-86442-699-2 , p. 133
- ^ Jamil M. Abun-Nasr: A history of the Maghrib in the Islamic period . 2005, p. 192
- ^ SIPRI Yearbook 2005: Armaments, disarmament and international security . Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2005. Humanities Press, New York, p. 636 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , OCLC 2211125
- ↑ "USA refuses to condemn the UN Security Council" Welt, July 4, 2019
