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    Jaghbub (Arabic: الجغبوب) (Italian: Giarabub) is a remote desert village in the Al Jaghbub Oasis in the eastern Libyan Desert. It is actually closer to...
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  • The Al Jaghbub Oasis is a protected area in northeastern Libya lying close to the border with Egypt. It adjoins the desert village of Jaghbub which is...
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    border with Chad, and the Acacus to the southwest. The main oases are Jaghbub and Jalo in east, in Cyrenaica, Kufra in the southeast, and Murzuk in the...
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    mosque in Bayda of Cyrenaica and named it after himself, then he moved to Jaghbub in Cyrenaica from where the mosques spread to the remaining cities of Barqa...
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    before continuing his studies for eight years at the Senussi University in Jaghbub, the holy city of the Senussi Tariqa. He became a popular expert on the...
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    coup d'état by army officers led by Muammar Gaddafi. Idris was born at Al-Jaghbub, the headquarters of the Senussi movement, on 12 March 1889 (although some...
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    Mohammed el Mahdi, then leader of the Senussi order, on their trip from Jaghbub to Kufra, where they remained until 1899, and where Ahmed's father died...
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    Bedouins. In 1855 Senussi moved farther from direct Ottoman surveillance to Jaghbub, a small oasis some 30 miles northwest of Siwa. He died in 1860, leaving...
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  • the pilot of a twin-engine Fairchild C-82 Packet cargo plane flying from Jaghbub to Benghazi in Libya; Lew Moran is the navigator. Passengers include Capt...
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    rule. The Grand Senussi established his headquarters in the oasis town of Jaghbub while his ikhwan (brothers) set up zawiyas (religious colleges or monasteries)...
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    Project" (2005) cites two additional languages: the extinct language of Jaghbub and the still-spoken Berber language of Tmessa, an oasis located in the...
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    near Siwa, and I was told of a multigenerational Siwi community at nearby Jaghbūb in Libya. page 16 of the book GRAMMATICAL CONTACT IN THE SAHARA: Arabic...
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    television. Other Egyptian jets attacked radar stations at Bardia and Jaghbub. A substantial Egyptian mechanised force—possibly as large as two divisions—advanced...
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    and permitted to autonomously administer the oases around Kufra, Jalu, Jaghbub, Awjila, and Ajdabiya. As part of the Accord he was given a monthly stipend...
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    Al Wahat in west and south. The most important settlements are Tobruk, Jaghbub and Bardia. Per the census of 2012, the total population in the region...
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    Depression  Israel Judea and Samaria Area Ein Gedi Oasis ? ?  Libya Butnan Al Jaghbub Oasis -2 Depression  Libya Nalut Derj Oasis 421 Wadi Tanarut  Libya Nalut...
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    barbed wire fence was built from the Mediterranean Sea to the oasis of Jaghbub to sever lines critical to the resistance. Soon afterwards, the colonial...
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  • kilometres (10 mi) west of the depression lie the oases of Siwa in Egypt and Jaghbub in Libya in smaller but similar depressions. The Qattara Depression contains...
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  • The siege of Giarabub (now Jaghbub) in Libya, was an engagement between Commonwealth and Italian forces, during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second...
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    Sand Sea. The Libyan Desert is home to a few oases, including Awjila and Jaghbub. The Berbers were the earliest recorded inhabitants of Cyrenaica. Egyptian...
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    rejected a secret Anglo-Italian treaty of 1915 which had ceded the Al Jaghbub Oasis to Italian Libya. Egypt and Italy signed a treaty on 6 December 1925...
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    Reconstructed Proto-Berber Eastern Awjila Fezzan Foqaha Sokna Tmessa Ghadamès Jaghbub Kufra Nafusi Jadu Nalut Wazzin Yefren Siwa Northern Tuareg Tamahaq Tamashek...
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  • Libya. It has a surface of approximately 62,000 km². The erg extends from Jaghbub and Jalo in the north to Kufra in the south, a distance of 500km. The erg...
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    defines the Cyrenaican (later Libyan)-Egyptian border. 1926: Conquest of Al-Jaghbub. Winter 1927-8: Launching the "29th Parallel line operations", as a result...
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    al-Beida in 1842. In 1856, Senussi relocated the center of the Order south to Jaghbub which also became the host of a new Islamic University "second only in...
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    administrative regions are missing from the above map, Qatrun, Marada, and Jaghbub In 1998 Libya was reorganized into twenty-six districts which were: Butnan...
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    between Libya and Egypt since the Italo-Egyptian treaty called the Treaty of Jaghbub (1925). During the colonial stage of Italian Libya, a series of defensive...
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    Reconstructed Proto-Berber Eastern Awjila Fezzan Foqaha Sokna Tmessa Ghadamès Jaghbub Kufra Nafusi Jadu Nalut Wazzin Yefren Siwa Northern Tuareg Tamahaq Tamashek...
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    had forced the Senussi to leave coastal Bayda for the desert village of Jaghbub in 1856, where they built an Islamic university, mosque and palace. The...
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    and permitted to autonomously administer the oases around Kufra, Jalu, Jaghbub, Awjila, and Ajdabiya. As part of the Accord, he was given a monthly stipend...
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