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