Nalut

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Nalut (Arabic نالوت, Nalut DMG ) is a city in western Libya in the same Munizip Nalut. Nalut has about 26,000 inhabitants (calculated for 2010), the majority of Berbers.

Location

Nalut lies on the route between Zuwara and Ghadames near the border with Tunisia at an altitude of about 630 meters above sea level. inst. The distance to the capital Tripoli amounts to about 320 kilometers.

Townscape

In recent years, Nalut has been greatly expanded. The old town is against it - has been almost entirely abandoned and forfeited - unlike in Ghadames.

Attractions

Ksar

In Nalut is a memory Castle ( ksar ), which was built to strengthen the defense above the village on a steep termination of the Jebel Nafusa. In their vaulted storage chambers ( ghorfas ) (cereals, oil, dates, dried fruit, etc.) were emplaced and other domestic or agricultural equipment in earlier times food supplies when a large part of the population during the summer months with the livestock (sheep and goats) in the higher - and therefore less dry - mountain regions went about ( transhumance ). During this time, a guard force at Ksar remained. Often these memory castles served as resting and trading places for caravans, which, however, for Nalut due to the exposed position and another ring with storage chambers inside is ruled out.

Mosque

Also worth seeing is the abandoned old town with its narrow streets and dilapidated mud houses. An architectural element is the old mosque from 1312, with its wind tower-like structure, and the easy, partly broken, columns and a fountain in the interior (see links).

Others

During the civil war in Libya insurgents declared on 19 February 2011 the city for free. The city occupies an important strategic position on the road from the border crossing Dahibah / Wazin by a Zintan.