Jalu, Jallow, or Gialo () is a town in the
Al Wahat District 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 ...
in the
Jalo oasis. Jalu serves as both an oasis and the principal urban center of the oases region in eastern Libya. Jalu was one of the homelands of the Indigenous Toubou (Goran) people, was abandoned following an Arab invasion around the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This invasion was supported by Ottoman firearms and troops, and since then, the oasis has been controlled by the Majabra Arab tribes. The name “Jalu” derives from the Tabou word ''Jolo'', meaning “lowland,” highlighting the enduring Indigenous linguistic heritage of the oasis.
[Wahli, S. H. (2022, October 7). ''الواحات التباوية السوداء.. جنوب برقة الليبية- إقليم توزر'' he Black Toubou Oases: Southern Barqa of Libya – The Tozeur Region ''Studies and Research in History, Heritage, and Languages''. https://m.ahewar.org/s.asp?aid=770715&r=0&cid=0&u=&i=10076&q=] It is located at the confluence of longitude and latitude (21-29), and the most important for attraction for the visitors and residents is the presence of dense palm forests linking the sand dunes and plateaus of the Libyan desert. Jalu's inhabitants were famous for trade and transporting goods from
Cyrenaica and
Tripoli to
Chad
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Egypt
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Sudan
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and other African countries. It is an ancient oasis mentioned by Arab travelers, and orientalists in many historical sources. Historical sources mention that the people of the Jallow oasis were the first to conduct trade caravans along the longest desert route from the Libyan coast to central and
eastern Africa around the middle of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.
Climate
Notable people
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Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr (1952-2011) - Libyan Minister of Defence (1970-2011)
See also
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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.
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Populated places in Al Wahat District
Cyrenaica
Protected areas of Libya
Baladiyat of Libya