Qaryat ʽUmar al Mukhtar

Qaryat ʽUmar al Mukhtar قرية عمر المختار
Village
Qaryat ʽUmar al Mukhtar Location in Libya
Coordinates: 32°37′49″N 21°40′29″E
Country	Libya
Region	Cyrenaica
District	Jabal al Akhdar
Population  (2006)[1]
• Total	6,521
Time zone	UTC + 2

Qaryat ʽUmar al Mukhtar (Arabic: قرية عمر المختار) is a village in the District of Jabal al Akhdar in north-eastern Libya.^[2] It was named after the Libyan resistance leader Omar Mukhtar. Under the Italian rule it was known as Mameli after the Italian patriot Goffredo Mameli.^{[3][citation needed]}

It is located 22 km south of Bayda.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. el Khajkhaj, Amraja M. (2008). Noumou al Mudon as Sagheera fi Libia. Benghazi: Dar as Saqia. p. 120. ISBN 978-9959-854-10-0.
2. Maplandia world gazetteer
3. Qaryat Omar al-Mukhtar at Italian Wikipedia

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