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ʽAziziya (/ ə ˈ z iː z iː ə /; Arabic: العزيزية al-ʿAzīziyyah / al-ʻAzīzīyah / al-ʿazīzīya), sometimes spelled El Azizia, is a small town and capital of the Jafara district in northwestern Libya, 41 kilometres (25 mi) southwest of the capital Tripoli.
Bab al-Azizia (Arabic: باب العزيزية, romanized: Bāb al ‘Azīzīyah, [1] Libyan pronunciation: [bæːb əl ʕæziːˈzijjæ], lit. ' The Splendid Gate ') was a military barracks and compound situated in the southern suburbs of Tripoli, the capital of Libya.
ʽAziziya or El Azizia (Arabic: العزيزيه Al ʿAzīzīyah) was one of the districts of Libya , located in the northwest of the country, south of Tripoli District. The town of ʽAziziya was the former district's capital, and it covered an area of 1,940 square kilometers. In 2001 ʽAziziya became part of the Jafara District. [1]
The proclamation of the republic in autumn 1918 was followed by a formal declaration of independence at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.. The capital of the republic was the town of 'Aziziya, 40 km south of Italian-occupied Tripoli, and its territory stretched at its widest from the Nafusa Mountains, near the Tunisian border, to Misrata and the surrounding coast, encompassing all the ...
Under the Italians Libya was eventually divided into four provinces and one territory: Tripoli, Misrata, Benghazi, Derna, (in the north) and the Territory of the Libyan Sahara (in the south). [6] After the French and British occupied Libya in 1943, it was again split into three provinces: Tripolitania in the northwest, Cyrenaica in the east ...
Jafara borders Tripoli in northeast, Jabal al Gharbi in south and Zawiya in the west. From 2001 to 2007, Jafara District consisted of twenty Basic People's Congresses (BPCs) . [ 3 ] In 2007 it was enlarged from 1,940 km 2 to 2,666 km 2 by the addition of four BPCs from Tarabulus District (Tripoli), and presently consists of twenty-four Basic ...
It is located in Libya on the Tripoli-'Aziziya-Al Jawf route in Libya about 130 km from Tripoli. It was built to serve as granary for families from the surrounding area in return for quarter of their crops, which, it is said, the owner had endowed as a waqf for teaching Qur'an and Islamic related subjects to the people of the area. The building ...
Ottoman Tripolitania, also known as the Regency of Tripoli, was officially ruled by the Ottoman Empire from 1551 to 1912. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It corresponded roughly to the northern parts of modern-day Libya in historic Tripolitania and Cyrenaica .