Country Libya District Marj Elevation 278 m Population 32,563 (2010) | Region Cyrenaica Time zone EET (UTC+2) Local time Tuesday 11:29 PM | |
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Weather 12°C, Wind N at 11 km/h, 88% Humidity | ||
Abyar (al-Abyā) (Arabic: الأبيار Al Abyār) is a town in the Marj District, Libya, roughly 50 km to the east of the city of Benghazi and 42 km southwest of the city of Marj. (As of 2010), its estimated population was 32,563.
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Map of Al-Abyar, Libya
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.
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Abyar, Libya Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA