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Benghazi had a strategic port location, one that was too useful to be ignored by the Ottomans. They occupied Benghazi in the 16th century and it was ruled from Tripoli by the Karamanlis from 1711 to 1835, then it passed under direct Ottoman rule until 1911. Under Ottoman rule, Benghazi was the most impoverished of the Ottoman provinces.
The Greek island of Crete is a short distance from Benghazi, and many families in Benghazi today bear Cretan surnames. There are even a few Italian-related families, left from the colonial times before World War II. The overwhelming majority of Libyans in Benghazi were of Berber descent until the arrival of Bani Salim (Arabic tribe).
Benghazi, Libya. Photo: Wikimedia Commons This is not a story about Benghazi. It has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton, al-Qaeda terrorists, or conspiracy theories. It is, however, a story about ...
Operation Bigamy [1] a.k.a. Operation Snowdrop was a raid during the Second World War by the Special Air Service in September 1942.This was done under the command of Lieutenant Colonel David Stirling and supported by the Long Range Desert Group.
To Benghazi. Official History of Australia in the Second World War Series 1 (Army). Vol. I. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. Archived from the original on September 8, 2007; Maughan, Barton (1966). Tobruk and El Alamein. Official History of Australia in the Second World War Series 1 (Army). Vol. III.
Administrative Benghazi Province created. [chronology citation needed] 1936 - Hotel Berenice built. [7] 1937 - March: Mussolini visits Benghazi. 1939 - Benghazi Cathedral built. 1942 November: British forces take city during the Battle of El Agheila in World War II. [8] Italian rule ends. Omar al-Mukhtar Society formed. [9] [chronology citation ...
From Benghazi–Agedabia, the British took 25,000 prisoners, captured 107 tanks and 93 guns of the totals for Operation Compass of 133,298 men, 420 tanks and 845 guns. [ 35 ] On 9 February, Churchill ordered the advance to stop and troops to be dispatched to Greece to take part in Operation Marita of the Greco-Italian War , since a German ...
Benghazi lighthouse. The lighthouse sustained some damage during World War II, but was much more severely damaged in the recent Libyan civil war. Some of the Islamist opponents of the military commander Khalifa Hafter took shelter in the lighthouse, and later used it to bury about 200 of their dead. Airstrikes hit the upper chamber and took out ...