Zintan
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Zintan (Template:Langx, meaning "small castles") is a city in northwestern Libya, situated roughly Script error: No such module "convert". southwest of Tripoli, in the area. The city and its surrounding area has a population of 16,024.
History
The Roman garrison town of Tentheos was on the Nafusa mountain range in the hinterland of the Limes Tripolitanus, near the border.[1]
Civil War activity
Groups from Zintan joined in the Libyan Civil War in 2011. The Battle of Zintan reportedly began when the Gaddafi-led government forces arrived to recruit 1,000 soldiers. Insulted by the proposal to fight fellow Libyans, a group formed in Zintan to protest. As the group grew, pro-Gaddafi forces attacked but local groups counterattacked with seized weapons, "rout[ing]" a large, heavily armed government convoy on 19–20 March.[2][3]
The Zintan people were responsible for the capture of Saif al-Islam, the second son of Muammar Gaddafi.[4] He was captured on 19 November 2011, a month after his father's death, about Script error: No such module "convert". west of the town of Ubari near Sabha in southern Libya.[5]
In 2015, during the Second Libyan Civil War, the area was damaged by a series of airstrikes from February to April.[6]
Notable people
- Osama al-Juwaili (born 1961), politician
See also
References
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- ↑ Olwen Hackett, David John Smith: Ghirza. A Libyan settlement in the Roman period. Department of Antiquities, Tripoli 1984, S. 33.
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