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Jadu, Libya

Coordinates: 31°57′N 12°01′E / 31.950°N 12.017°E / 31.950; 12.017
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Jadu
Fessatu
جادو
Giado
Town
Mosque in Jadu
Mosque in Jadu
Jadu is located in Libya
Jadu
Jadu
Location in Libya
Coordinates: 31°57′N 12°01′E / 31.950°N 12.017°E / 31.950; 12.017
Country Libya
RegionTripolitania
DistrictJabal al Gharbi
Elevation2,448 ft (746 m)
Population
 (2004)[1]
 • Total6,013
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
License Plate Code43

Jadu or Gado (/ˈɑːd/ JAH-doo; Arabic: جادو, romanizedJādū; Berber languages: Fessatu; Italian: Giado) is a mountain town in western Libya (Tripolitania), formerly in the Jabal al Gharbi District. Before the 2007 reorganization, and after 2015 it was part of Yafran District.

Geography

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Jadu is located in the Nafusa Mountains,[2] twenty-five kilometers southwest of Tarmeisa (طرميسة, Ţarmīşah).[3]

History

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Jadu was formerly the capital of the Nafusa Mountains District.[2]

Giado concentration camp during its operation

Giado concentration camp

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Giado, as it was then known by its Italian name, was the site of an Italian concentration camp during the Second World War.[4] In 1942, about 2,600 Jews [5] and other people, who were considered undesirables by Italians, were rounded up throughout Libya and sent to the Giado camp.[6] 564 died from typhus and other privations.[7] The camp was liberated by the British Army in January 1943.

Civil war

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Jadu's council rejected the draft 2017 constitution.[8]

In April 2020, local Amazigh forces were bombed at the end of the Second Libyan Civil War.[9]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Wolfram-Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine". Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Jadu: Berber hilltop village". LookLex. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ "Tarmeisa: Village or fortress?". LookLex. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ Gutman, Israel (1990). Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Macmillan, New York, p. 865, ISBN 0-02-897165-5.
  5. ^ "Scopri StoriaLive". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  6. ^ Pugliese, Stanislao G. (2002). The Most Ancient of Minorities: the Jews of Italy, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, pp. 282-284, ISBN 0-313-31895-6.
  7. ^ Barkat, Amiram (30 April 2003). "A new look at Libyan Jewry's Holocaust experience". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 30 October 2018.
  8. ^ Assad, Abdulkader (23 December 2018). "Jadu city boycotts Libya's constitution referendum". The Libya Observer. Archived from the original on 2 February 2022.
  9. ^ Velqa (15 April 2020). "Riposte sanglante du général Haftar: 8 combattants d'Adrar Ineffusen tués" (in French). VAVA innova. Archived from the original on 1 February 2022.
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31°57′N 12°01′E / 31.950°N 12.017°E / 31.950; 12.017