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Jadu, Libya

ⵊⴰⴷⵓ Jado
  • ⴼⵚⵚⴰⵟⵓ
  • جادو
Fessatu
Town
Mosque in Jadu
Mosque in Jadu
ⵊⴰⴷⵓ Jado is located in Libya
ⵊⴰⴷⵓ Jado
ⵊⴰⴷⵓ Jado
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
Elevation
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2,448 ft (746 m)
Population
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 • Total
6,013
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
License Plate Code43

Jadu or Gado (/ˈdʒɑːduː/ JAH-doo;Berber languages: ⵊⴰⴷⵓ ;Berber languages: ⴼⵚⵚⵟⵓ; Italian: Giado; Arabic: جادو, romanized: Jādū) 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 the main trade town of the Nafusa, and the first stop on the caravan roads leading from Tripoli to the Fezzan, the Wagadu empire, Gao and the Kanem Empire. The town of Djado in modern-day Niger was likely founded by Ibadi merchants from Jadu.[4]

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

Giado concentration camp during its operation

Giado concentration camp

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Main article: Giado concentration camp

Giado, as it was then known by its Italian name, was the site of an Italian concentration camp during the Second World War.[5] In 1942, about 2,600 Jews[6] and other people, who were considered undesirables by Italians, were rounded up throughout Libya and sent to the Giado camp.[7] 564 died from typhus and other privations.[8] The camp was liberated by the British Army in January 1943.

Civil war

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Main article: Nafusa Mountains campaign

Jadu's council rejected the draft 2017 constitution.[9]

In April 2020, local Amazigh forces were bombed at the end of the Second Libyan Civil War.[10]

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.
  3. ^ "Tarmeisa: Village or fortress?". LookLex. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008.
  4. ^ Lewicki, Tadeusz (1971). "The Ibádites in Arabia and Africa: Part II. The Ibádites in North Africa and the Sudan to the Fourteenth Century". Journal of World History. 13 (1): 127–8. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  5. ^ Gutman, Israel (1990). Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Macmillan, New York, p. 865, ISBN 0-02-897165-5.
  6. ^ "Scopri StoriaLive". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Barkat, Amiram (30 April 2003). "A new look at Libyan Jewry's Holocaust experience". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 30 October 2018.
  9. ^ Assad, Abdulkader (23 December 2018). "Jadu city boycotts Libya's constitution referendum". The Libya Observer. Archived from the original on 2 February 2022.
  10. ^ 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

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