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    Ain Zara is a town and oasis in western Libya, located in the region of Tripoli. In ancient times it was an important agricultural center. In the surroundings...
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    The Battle of Ain Zara was fought in December 1911 during the Italo-Turkish War between the Kingdom of Italy and Ottoman Empire forces for the control...
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    recapturing Gate 27, as well as asserting control over Salah al-Din and Ain Zara neighbourhood in southern Tripoli, after pro-GNA militias surrendered to...
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    dropped the world's first aerial bomb from his Taube monoplane over the Ain Zara oasis in Libya. Once the war began, it quickly proved inadequate as a warplane...
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    dropped the world's first aerial bomb from his Taube monoplane over the Ain Zara oasis in Libya. On 1 November 1911, he flew his early model Etrich Taube...
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    during the same attack. On 14 December 2019, a GNA TB2 was shot down in Ain Zara, Tripoli. On 2 January 2020, a GNA TB2 was shot down south of Mitiga Airport...
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    the Battle of Ain Zara, but outnumbered and outgunned, the Italians took the oasis. However the Italians couldn't advance beyond Ain Zara into December...
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  • most important positions the Senussi had near Tripoli after the Battle of Ain Zara happened on December 4. Bir Tabraz's position was garrisoned by 200-300...
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  • recapturing Gate 27, as well as asserting control over Salah al-Din and Ain Zara neighbourhood in southern Tripoli, after pro-GNA militias surrendered to...
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  • Hassan – 14,081 (25.09%) • Ageela Omran Ageela Bin Miftah – 6,147 (10.95%) Ain Zara Seats: 2. Candidates: 67 Elected: • Mahmoud Al Mukhtar Taher Atabeeb –...
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    western parts of former Duchy of Carniola, Northern Dalmatia and notably Zara, Šibenik and most of the Dalmatian islands (except Krk and Rab), according...
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    September 2, hundreds of prisoners, including Gaddafi supporters, escaped from Ain Zara prison in the southern suburbs of Tripoli, in a mass jail break during...
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    November, another Italian pilot, Giulio Gavotti, dropped four 1.5 kg bombs on Ain Zara, pulling the pins with his teeth. This was the first aerial bombing in...
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    number of points surrounding the city including Gharian to the south; Ain Zara, about five miles to the southeast; and at the Zanzur oasis twelve miles...
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    dropped four grenades on Tajura (Arabic: تاجوراء Tājūrā’, or Tajoura) and Ain Zara in the first aerial bombing in history. Technologically and numerically...
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    assumed command of the Ain Zara oasis on December 18 launched an operation against the oasis of Bir Tobraz (14 km south of ʿAin Zara). The Italian general...
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    areas of operations in Tripoli are the western areas of Soug Al Jouma and Ain Zara. Their headquarters are at Mitiga International Airport. RADA operates...
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    conducted the first aerial reconnaissance flight, between Tripoli and Ain Zara during the Italo-Turkish War. John Domenjoz (1886–1952) – Performed aerobatics...
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    Corps Blériot XI and Nieuport IV monoplanes bombing a Turkish camp at Ain Zara in Libya. In the First Balkan War (1912) the Bulgarian Air Force bombed...
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    part in the Italian-Turkish war in Libya (participating in the battles of Ain Zara in December 1911 and of Sidi Said in June 1912), with the 3rd Alpini Regiment...
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  • of the King in 1953 and returned to Libya where he bought a farm in the Ain Zara area shortly after King Saud succeeded his father. Khalid kept his Turkish...
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    of Libya on November 1, 1911. Giulio Gavotti dropped 1.5 kg of bombs on Ain Zara, a village 8 km west of the capital Tripoli. Adrianople (presently Edirne)...
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    during the Italo-Turkish War, distinguishing himself during the battles of Ain Zara, Gargaresh and Zanzur, for which he was awarded a Bronze Medal of Military...
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  • Christian cemeteries excavated in Kairouan dating from 945-1046 and in Áin Zára and En Ngila in Tripolitania from before the 10th century contain Latin...
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    April 2019, pro-GNA forces shot down a pro-LNA MiG-21MF in the area of Ain Zara, Tripoli, with a Chinese-made FN-6 MANPADS (pro-LNA forces claim that the...
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    the battalion fought at Henni Mesri, on 4 December 1911 in the Battle of Ain Zara, and on 19 December at Bir Tobras. While the battalion was deployed to...
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    in 1911. The first section was done in 1912 from the port of Tripoli to Ain Zara, with 11 km of rails using a track gauge of 950 mm. By the end of the same...
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    will killed in the attack, while most were subsequently imprisoned in Ain Zara detention center in Tripoli. The events prompted condemnation from the...
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  • Misrata. 14 April 2019 – GNA forces shot down a LNA MiG-21MF in the area of Ain Zara, Tripoli, with a Chinese-made FN-6 MANPADS, its pilot Jamal Ben Amer ejected...
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    Battle of Benghazi 20 October Battle of Shar al-Shatt 23 October Battle of Ain Zara 4 December Battle of Tobruk 22 December 1911—9 January 1912 Italy begins...
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