Tacnis, also Taknis, or Tècnis, is a small town in Jebel Akhdar region in northeastern

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 ...

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 ...

. It is located east 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 ...

. It is on the inner road between

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 ...

and

Lamluda Lamluda is a village in the Jebel Akhdar region of northeastern Libya. It is located east of Bayda. Lamluda is on the cross-roads of several roads in northern Cyrenaica: *It is connected with Marj by two roads, the northern one (through Bayda) ...

. There is a minor road connecting the town to the north with

Libyan Coastal Highway The Libyan Coastal Highway (), formerly the Litoranea Balbo, is a highway that is the only major road that runs along the entire east-west length of the Libyan Mediterranean coastline. It is a section in the Cairo–Dakar Highway #1 in the Tr ...

. There is also an indirect road connecting it with Charruba to the south. It is the birthplace of

Hussein Maziq Hussein Yousef Maziq (; 26 June 1918 – 12 May 2006) was a Libyan politician who was Prime Minister of Libya from 20 March 1965 to 2 July 1967. He was one of the most important men in the Kingdom era of Libya. Family background Maziq was a ...

, a Libyan politician and former prime minister of Libya.

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Populated places in Marj District Cyrenaica {{Libya-geo-stub

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