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Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi [13] was born near Qasr Abu Hadi, a rural area outside the town of Sirte in the deserts of Tripolitania, Italian western Libya. [14] His family came from a small, relatively uninfluential tribe called the Qadhadhfa, [15] who were Arab in heritage. His mother was Aisha bin Niran, and his father, Mohammad ...
This led to many Libyans supporting Muammar Gaddafi's coup. [4] Gaddafi established the Free Officers movement at the Libyan Royal Military Academy in Benghazi in 1964, a revolutionary group which met secretly. [5] After the Arab defeat in the Six-Day War in 1967, the Free Officers were convinced that the monarchy had to be replaced. They ...
Despite previous reports suggesting that Muammar Gaddafi may be inside, no members of the Gaddafi family were found. [298] Early the following day, 24 August, Gaddafi broadcast an address from a Tripoli local radio station in which he said the withdrawal from Bab al-Azizia had been a "tactical" move.
The last government holdouts in Sirte finally fell to anti-Gaddafi fighters on 20 October 2011, and, following the controversial death of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya was officially declared "liberated" on 23 October 2011, ending 42 years of Gaddafi's leadership in Libya.
The Kingdom of Libya (Arabic: المملكة الليبية, romanized: Al-Mamlakah Al-Lībiyya, lit. 'Libyan Kingdom'; Italian: Regno di Libia), known as the United Kingdom of Libya from 1951 to 1963, was a constitutional monarchy in North Africa that came into existence upon independence on 24 December 1951 and lasted until a bloodless coup d'état on 1 September 1969.
The next day the RCC promoted Captain Gaddafi to colonel and appointed him commander-in-chief of the Libyan Armed Forces. Although RCC spokesmen declined until January 1970 to reveal any other names of RCC members, it was apparent from that date onward that the head of the RCC and new de facto head of state was Gaddafi.
Also known as Independence Day. ... In commemoration of the Green Revolution of Muammar Gaddafi. See Libyan coup d'état of 1969. Mozambique, September 25 (1964). [4]
Libya gained independence in 1951 as the United Libyan ... The day became a national holiday known as "Day of ... the second-eldest son of Muammar Gaddafi, ...