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Suluq

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Country
  
Libya

District
  
Benghazi

Elevation
  
60 m

Local time
  
Friday 5:10 AM

Region
  
Cyrenaica

Time zone
  
UTC + 2

Population
  
15,543 (2004)

Suluq

Weather
  
12°C, Wind NW at 11 km/h, 90% Humidity

Suluq (Arabic: سلوق‎‎) is a town in the Benghazi District of the Cyrenaica region in northeastern Libya. It is located about 53 kilometers to the south-east of Benghazi.

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Map of Suluq, Libya

Italian Libya

Suluq is the site of a former Italian concentration camp for the nomadic tribes that lived in Eastern Libya (Cyrenaica) during the colonial Italian North Africa and Italian Libya period. On 16 September 1931 Omar Mukhtar, the leader of the Libyan resistance movement, was hanged here.

Suluq was the southern inland terminus of a short narrow gauge railway built by the Italian Libya Railways. This line was closed around the 1960s.

Present day

Suluq is on the crossroad of many roads connecting her with several inhabited places like:

  1. Benghazi (to the north-west).
  2. Al Abyar (to the north-east).
  3. Qaminis (to the west).
  4. El Magrun (to the south-west).
  5. Zawiyat Msus (to the south-east).

In 2009, 5,000 new housing units were built in Suluq.

References

Suluq Wikipedia