Suluq


Suluq is a town in the Benghazi District of the Cyrenaica region in northeastern Libya. It is located about 53 kilometers to the south-east of Benghazi.

Italian Libya

Suluq is the site of a former Italian [concentration camps in Libya|Italian concentration camp] for the nomadic tribes that lived in Eastern Libya during the colonial Italian North Africa and Italian Libya period. On 16 September 1931 Omar Mukhtar, the leader of the Libyan [resistance movement], was hanged here.
Suluq was the southern inland terminus of a short narrow gauge built by the Italian [Libya Railways]. This line was closed around the 1960s.

Present day

Suluq is on the crossroad of many roads connecting her with several inhabited places like:
  1. Benghazi.
  2. Al Abyar.
  3. Qaminis.
  4. El Magrun.
  5. Zawiyat Msus.
In 2009, 5,000 new housing units were built in Suluq.