Jaghbub, Libya
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Al- Jaghbub (Arabic الجغبوب, DMG al - Ǧaġbūb; Jaghbub English, Italian Giarabub, also: Jarabub ) is an oasis town in eastern Libya in Munizip al - Butnan with around 3000 inhabitants.
Location
A road connects the area with the 290 km northern Tobruk. Closer than all Libyan settlements and oases is the Egyptian Siwa oasis settlement. The water supply of the oasis is done by fossil water, which allows the cultivation of date palms.
History
The oasis is located on an old caravan and pilgrimage. From 1856 it became a center of the Senussi Brotherhood after the original center of the brotherhood had to be abandoned in al - Baida because of the attacks of Ottoman forces. Had the Sanussiya Medal in the 19th and 20th centuries in North Africa a large following and has held the religious, economic and military control over the West Sahara long time.
The Brotherhood left the city with a wall mount and set up an Islamic school and a library. It was up to the present dominated by the grave of the order's founder, Muhammad ibn ʿ Alī al Sīdī - Sanusi al - Kabīr ( Muhammad al- Sanusi ), ( 1791-1859 ), the grandfather of the deposed King Idris I of Gaddafi, who in 1859 al- Jaghbub died.
The Italian garrison held the oasis from December 1940 to April 1941, when the British conquered the oasis.
In the Libyan -Egyptian border war in July 1977 military installations were attacked in the oasis of the Egyptian Air Force.
1984 became the place in the public interest, as the Libyan government under Muammar Gaddafi blew up the grave of Mohammed al- Sanusi, that was considered a holy pilgrimage place of the Islamic- Orthodox opposition.
In the February Revolution Libyan al- Jaghbub said after a decision stands Assembly already on 21 February 2011, just 4 days after the outbreak of the uprising, the government in Tripoli going on.