Abyar (al-Abyā) ( ') is a town in the
Marj District
Marj (, , "The Meadows"), pronounced ''El Merj'' in Benghazi and Egyptian Arabic, is a district (''shabiyah'') of northeastern Libya on the Mediterranean Sea coast. Its administrative seat is the city of Marj, which is generally believed to be ...
,
in northeastern
Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya border, the east, Sudan to Libya–Sudan border, the southeast, Chad to Chad–L ...
, roughly 50 km to the east of the city of
Benghazi
Benghazi () () is the List of cities in Libya, second-most-populous city in Libya as well as the largest city in Cyrenaica, with an estimated population of 859,000 in 2023. Located on the Gulf of Sidra in the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean, Ben ...
and 42 km southwest of the city of
Marj
Marj (, , "The Meadows"), El Merj in Benghazi and Egyptian Arabic, is a city in northeastern Libya and the administrative seat of the Marj District. It lies in an upland valley separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a range of hills, part of th ...
. (), its estimated population was 32,563.
History
The town is the site of a former
Italian concentration camp
Italian concentration camps include camps from the Italian colonial wars in Africa as well as camps for the civilian population from areas occupied by Italy during World War II. Memory of both camps were subjected to "historical amnesia". The repr ...
for the
nomadic tribe
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s that lived in Eastern Libya (
Cyrenaica
Cyrenaica ( ) or Kyrenaika (, , after the city of Cyrene), is the eastern region of Libya. Cyrenaica includes all of the eastern part of Libya between the 16th and 25th meridians east, including the Kufra District. The coastal region, als ...
), and for those in the
Libyan resistance movement
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, during the colonial
Italian North Africa
Libya (; ) was a colony of Italy located in North Africa, in what is now modern Libya, between 1934 and 1943. It was formed from the unification of the colonies of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania, which had been Italian possessions since 1911.
Fro ...
and
Italian Libya
Libya (; ) was a colony of Fascist Italy (1922–1943), Italy located in North Africa, in what is now modern Libya, between 1934 and 1943. It was formed from the unification of the colonies of Italian Cyrenaica, Cyrenaica and Italian Tripolitan ...
periods. Prior to 2007, it was the capital of the district of
Hizam al Akhdar.
See also
*
List of cities in Libya
This is a list of the 100 largest populated places in Libya. Some places in the list could be considered suburbs or neighborhoods of some large cities in the list, so this list is not definitive.
''Source:Amraja M. el Khajkhaj, "Noumou ...
Notes
External links
"Abyar, Libya" Falling Rain Genomics, Inc.
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
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Populated places in Marj District
Cyrenaica
Baladiyat of Libya