Qaryat ʽUmar al Mukhtar (Arabic: قرية عمر المختار) is a village in the District of Jabal al Akhdar in north-eastern Libya.[2] It was named after the Libyan resistance leader Omar Mukhtar. Under the Italian rule it was known as Mameli after the Italian patriot Goffredo Mameli.[3][citation needed]
It is located 22 km south of Bayda.[citation needed]
References
- ^ el Khajkhaj, Amraja M. (2008). Noumou al Mudon as Sagheera fi Libia. Benghazi: Dar as Saqia. p. 120. ISBN 978-9959-854-10-0.
- ^ Maplandia world gazetteer
- ^ Qaryat Omar al-Mukhtar at Italian Wikipedia
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