Ajdabiya
Sha'biyah
Ajdabiya (also Ajdabiya, Ajdabiya, Ajdabya or Egdabya, Arabic أجدابيا Ajdabiya, DMG Aǧdābiyā, Italian or Latin Agedabia Agdav Villa ) is a city in Libya, with 76 968 inhabitants ( 2010). Ajdabiya is located in Munizip al - Wahat and is the capital of the former Munizips same name.
History
The town is 18 km from the Mediterranean Sea at a traditional trade route and had during the Roman period the name Corniclanum. 643 the Arabs conquered under ʿ Amr ibn al - ʿ as The City and the resident Berber tribes were tributary. From 914, the city was part of the Fatimid Empire. This called the city in the early 10th century Ajibah and after the expansion of the settlement Ajdabiya. From here, the Fatimids continued their campaigns of conquest against the Ichschididen in Egypt and took a 969 Cairo.
Until the early 20th century ran from Ajdabiya an important caravan route to the Kufra oases.
In the modus vivendi of Acroma of 25 October 1920 ( Senussi Order ) has been agreed between the colonial power Italy and Sanussiya that Ajdabiya is the seat of government of the Emir Sidi Muhammad Idris al -Mahdi al - Senussi in Italian Cyrenaica. 1922 was the Emir due to Italian attacks into exile in Egypt.
During the civil war in Libya in 2011, the city was repeatedly the scene of clashes between government troops and opposition forces.
Population
About 70 percent of the residents Adschdabiyas belong to the Bedouin tribe al - Magharba.
Infrastructure
Ajdabiya is an important transportation hub. Along the historic coastal road ( Via Balbo ), the running to the north coast highway in the around 154 km from Benghazi, while one of the leading south-west coastal road for about 87 km from the major oil port of Brega ( Marsa al Burayqah / Port Brega ) and continue towards El Agheila, Ras Lanuf and Sirte reaches. From Ajdabiya to the northeast, the desert road Tobruk Ajdabiya leads in the 410 km distant Tobruk, to the southeast in the interior is a road to the Oasis Awjilah and Yalu.
The historic port of Ajdabiya was on the Gulf of Sirte, 22 km away in al - Mahur (Al Mahawr, Cas Turca ), which now serves only as a beach resort. Today's key oil port located in northern az- Zuwaitina ( Suitina ) (Arabic: ميناء الزويتينة النفطي ) and is hub for the Founded in 1986 Zueitina Oil Company (formerly Occidental Libya ), as well as the further south of az- Zuwaitina located airfield Zuetina with two start and runways.
It is planned to connect the city to the railway line Sirt - Benghazi.
Attractions
- Qasr il Muhassa, a Fatimidenpalast in the city center
- Imam Muhammad bin Sakhnun mosque and a Madrasa from the 10th century
- Al- Essra Mosque
- Al -Quds mosque