Abyar, Libya Explained

Official Name:Abyar
Other Name:El Abiar
Native Name:الأبيار
Settlement Type:Town
Pushpin Map:Libya
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Libya
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Libya
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Cyrenaica
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Marj
Population As Of:2010
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:32,563
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Timezone:EET
Utc Offset:+2
Coordinates:32.1889°N 20.5967°W
Elevation Footnotes:[2]
Elevation M:278
Registration Plate Type:License Plate Code
Registration Plate:30

Abyar (al-Abyā) (Arabic: الأبيار ) is a town in the Marj District,[3] Libya, roughly 50 km to the east of the city of Benghazi and 42 km southwest of the city of Marj., its estimated population was 32,563.

History

The town is the site of a former Italian concentration camp for the nomadic tribes that lived in Eastern Libya (Cyrenaica), and for those in the Libyan resistance movement, during the colonial Italian North Africa and Italian Libya periods. Prior to 2007 it was the capital of the district of Hizam al Akhdar.

Notes

  1. http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=1299519174&men=gcis&lng=en&des=gamelan&geo=-133&srt=epnn&col=abcdefghimoq&msz=1500 "Libya: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population"
  2. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=al+Abyar Wolfram Alpha
  3. Web site: شعبيات الجماهيرية العظمى – Sha'biyat of Great Jamahiriya. Arabic. https://web.archive.org/web/20090207003234/http://gpco.gov.ly/online/shabyat.php. 7 February 2009. dead.

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