Benghazi
URI
Coordinates
Latitude: 32.11486, Longitude: 20.06859 , Altitude: 3m
Provenance: Geonames
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External URIs
Variant names
- الْمَدِينََه الْعَصِيّهْ (Arabic)
- بنغازي (Arabic)
- رَبّايِةْ الْذَايِحْ (Arabic)
- Bangazi
- Bengazi (Polish)
- Bengasi (Italian)
- Banghazi (German)
- Бенгази (Russian)
- Bingazi (Turkish)
Feature type(s)
Settlement
Relationships with other locations
Relationships with other locations
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Related locations
This is a location within which a location falls. Most of these are conceptual – for example a Roman Province, a Hellenistic Kingdom or the chapter of a book – so many locations have multiple parent locations.- Benghazi forms part of Benghazi to Taucheira (Kenrick)
- Benghazi forms part of Cyrenaica (Reynolds)
Child features
Inverted related locations
These are locations contained within the location – these may, for example be monuments within a settlement, or zones within a cityThe locations below are contained within Benghazi
- Al Birkah
- Al Jukhkh al Kabir
- Al Masjid al ‘Aţīq, Benghazi
- Bayt al-Madina al-Thaqafi
- Benghazi Museum
- Berenice
- Buḩayrat Bū Jazīrah
- Euesperides
- Jāmi‘ ‘Uşmān
- Omar Mukhtar Street, Benghazi
- Sidi Hussein, Benghazi
Notes
Modern port city located on the Mediterranean Sea. Second largest city in Libya and largest in the region of Barqah. Former joint capital of Libya.