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Soluch
Soluch may refer to: *Soluch Airfield, Soluch, Libya. *Soluch concentration camp, Suluq, Libya * An alternative spelleling of Suluq Suluq () is a town in the Benghazi District of the Cyrenaica region in northeastern Libya. It is located about 53 kilometers to the south-east of Benghazi. Italian Libya Suluq is the site of a former Italian concentration camp for the nomadic t ... *Soluch, a character from the 1979 Iranian book translated as '' Missing Soluch'' {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soluch Concentration Camp
Execution of Omar Mukhtar, Soluch 1931 The Soluch concentration camp was an Italian concentration camp in Suluq (also known as Soluch) in the Italian colony of Libya during the Pacification of Libya that took place from 1928 to 1932.Geoff Simons. ''Libya and the West: From Independence to Lockerbie''. Oxford, England, UK: Centre for Libyan Studies, 2003. P. 12. It was here that the famous Senussi anti-colonial leader Omar Mukhtar was executed by hanging on 16 September 1931. The camp is recorded as having a population of 20,123 people.Michael R. Ebner. Geoff Simons. ''Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy''. New York, New York, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 261. See also * Libyan genocide * The Holocaust in Libya * Italian concentration camps in Libya * Italian Libya * Second Italo-Senussi War The Second Italo-Senussi War, also referred to as the pacification of Libya, was a conflict that occurred during the Italian colonization of Libya between Italian milit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suluq
Suluq () is a town in the Benghazi District of the Cyrenaica region in northeastern Libya. It is located about 53 kilometers to the south-east of Benghazi. Italian Libya Suluq is the site of a former Italian concentration camp for the nomadic tribes that lived in Eastern Libya (Cyrenaica) during the colonial Italian North Africa and Italian Libya period. On 16 September 1931 Omar Mukhtar, the leader of the Libyan resistance movement, was hanged here. Suluq was the southern inland terminus of a short narrow gauge built by the Italian Libya Railways. This line was closed around the 1960s. Present day Suluq is on the crossroad of many roads connecting her with several inhabited places like: #Benghazi (to the north-west). # Al Abyar (to the north-east). # Qaminis (to the west). # El Magrun (to the south-west). # Zawiyat Msus (to the south-east). In 2009, 5,000 new housing units were built in Suluq. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |