Jadu, Libya Explained

Official Name:Jadu
Other Name:Giado
Native Name:Berber languages: Fessatu|script=Latn
Arabic: جادو
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:Tripolitania
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Jabal al Gharbi
Unit Pref:Imperial
Population As Of:2004
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:6013
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Timezone:EET
Utc Offset:+2
Coordinates:31.95°N 13°W
Elevation M:746
Registration Plate Type:License Plate Code
Registration Plate:43

Jadu or Gado (; Arabic: جادو|Jādū; Berber languages: Fessatu|script=Latn; Italian: Giado) is a mountain town in western Libya (Tripolitania), formerly in the Jabal al Gharbi District. Before the 2007 reorganization, and after 2015 it was part of Yafran District.

Geography

Jadu is located in the Nafusa Mountains,[2] twenty-five kilometers southwest of Tarmeisa (Arabic: طرميسة, Ţarmīşah).[3]

History

Jadu was formerly the capital of the Nafusa Mountains District.

Giado concentration camp

See main article: Giado concentration camp. Giado, as it was then known by its Italian name, was the site of an Italian concentration camp during the Second World War.[4] In 1942, about 2,600 Jews [5] and other people, who were considered undesirables by Italians, were rounded up throughout Libya and sent to the Giado camp.[6] 564 died from typhus and other privations.[7] The camp was liberated by the British Army in January 1943.

Civil war

See main article: Nafusa Mountains campaign.

Jadu's council rejected the draft 2017 constitution.[8]

In April 2020, local Amazigh forces were bombed at the end of the Second Libyan Civil War.[9]

See also

External links

31.95°N 13°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wolfram-Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine. 3 November 2016.
  2. Web site: Jadu: Berber hilltop village . LookLex . https://web.archive.org/web/20081012210444/http://looklex.com/libya/jadu.htm . 12 October 2008 . unfit .
  3. Web site: Tarmeisa: Village or fortress? . LookLex . https://web.archive.org/web/20081012211747/http://looklex.com/libya/tarmeisa.htm . 12 October 2008 . unfit .
  4. Gutman, Israel (1990). Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Macmillan, New York, p. 865, .
  5. Web site: Scopri StoriaLive. 3 November 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190345/http://www.pbmstoria.it/giornali3228. 3 March 2016. dead.
  6. Pugliese, Stanislao G. (2002). The Most Ancient of Minorities: the Jews of Italy, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, pp. 282-284, .
  7. News: Barkat . Amiram . A new look at Libyan Jewry's Holocaust experience . 30 April 2003 . Haaretz . https://web.archive.org/web/20181030005350/https://www.haaretz.com/1.4725847 . 30 October 2018 . live .
  8. News: Assad . Abdulkader . 23 December 2018 . Jadu city boycotts Libya's constitution referendum . . https://web.archive.org/web/20220202230407/https://www.libyaobserver.ly/news/jadu-city-boycotts-libya%E2%80%99s-constitution-referendum . 2 February 2022 . live .
  9. News: Velqa . Riposte sanglante du général Haftar: 8 combattants d'Adrar Ineffusen tués . fr . 15 April 2020 . VAVA innova . https://web.archive.org/web/20220201160407/https://vava-innova.com/article/2020/04/15/riposte-sanglante-de-haftar-8-combattants-dadrar-ineffusen-tues/ . 1 February 2022 . live .