Jadu or Gado (/ˈdʒɑːduː/ JAH-doo; Arabic: جادو, romanized: Jādū; 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.
Jadu
Fessatu جادو Giado | |
|---|---|
Town | |
 Mosque in Jadu | |
  Jadu Location in Libya | |
| Coordinates: 31°57′N 12°01′E / 31.950°N 12.017°E | |
| Country |  Libya |
| Region | Tripolitania |
| District | Jabal al Gharbi |
| Elevation | 2,448 ft (746 m) |
| Population (2004)[1] | |
• Total | 6,013 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| License Plate Code | 43 |
Geography
editJadu is located in the Nafusa Mountains,[2] twenty-five kilometers southwest of Tarmeisa (طرميسة, Ţarmīşah).[3]
History
editJadu was formerly the capital of the Nafusa Mountains District.[2]
Giado concentration camp
editGiado, 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
editJadu'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
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Wolfram-Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine". Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ a b "Jadu: Berber hilltop village". LookLex. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Tarmeisa: Village or fortress?". LookLex. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Gutman, Israel (1990). Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Macmillan, New York, p. 865, ISBN 0-02-897165-5.
- ^ "Scopri StoriaLive". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Barkat, Amiram (30 April 2003). "A new look at Libyan Jewry's Holocaust experience". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 30 October 2018.
- ^ Assad, Abdulkader (23 December 2018). "Jadu city boycotts Libya's constitution referendum". The Libya Observer. Archived from the original on 2 February 2022.
- ^ 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.
External links
edit- "Jadu, Libya", Falling Rain Genomics, Inc.
31°57′N 12°01′E / 31.950°N 12.017°E
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