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بنغازی

مختصات: ۳۲°۰۷′ شمالی ۲۰°۰۴′ شرقی / ۳۲٫۱۱۷°شمالی ۲۰٫۰۶۷°شرقی / 32.117; 20.067
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بنغازی
بنغازی در لیبی واقع شده
بنغازی
بنغازی
مختصات: ۳۲°۰۷′ شمالی ۲۰°۰۴′ شرقی / ۳۲٫۱۱۷°شمالی ۲۰٫۰۶۷°شرقی / 32.117; 20.067
ارتفاع
۲ متر (۷ فوت)
جمعیت
۶۳۱۵۵۵ (۲۰۱۱)
 • تراکم۲۰۰۰/کیلومتر مربع (۵۰۰۰/مایل مربع)
کد منطقه۰۶۱ (۲۱۸)+
Benghazi
بنغازي
Benghazi seafront
Benghazi seafront
نام مستعار: 
رَبّايِةْ الْذَايِحْ (Mother of Migrants) – الْمَدِينََه الْعَصِيّهْ (The Intractable City)
Benghazi در لیبی واقع شده
Benghazi
Benghazi
Location in Libya
مختصات: ۳۲°۰۷′ شمالی ۲۰°۰۴′ شرقی / ۳۲٫۱۱۷°شمالی ۲۰٫۰۶۷°شرقی / 32.117; 20.067
RegionCyrenaica
DistrictBenghazi
Settledas Euesperides (ح. 525 BC)
Renamed
حکومت
 • MayorSaqr Bojwari
مساحت
 • City۳۱۴ کیلومتر مربع (۱۲۱ مایل مربع)
ارتفاع۲ متر (۷ فوت)
جمعیت
 (2023)[۲]
 • City۸۵۹٬۰۰۰
 • تراکم۲۷۰۰/کیلومتر مربع (۷۱۰۰/مایل مربع)
 • کلان‌شهری
۱٬۵۰۰٬۰۰۰
اهلیت‌نامBenghazian
منطقهٔ زمانییوتی‌سی +۲ (EET)
کد منطقه(+218) 61
License Plate Code8

بِنغازی یا بن‌غازی[۳] نام دومین شهر پرجمعیت لیبی و بندری در شرق آن کشور است. شهر بنغازی بر کرانه خلیج سیدرا واقع شده‌است.

Roman and Byzantine periods

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Berenice later became a Roman city and greatly prospered for 600 years. The city superseded Cyrene and Barca as the chief center of Cyrenaica after the 3rd century AD[۴] and during the Persian campaigns; by 642–643, when it was conquered by the Muslim Arabs and partially destroyed, it had dwindled to an insignificant village among magnificent historic ruins.[نیازمند منبع]

In its more prosperous period, Berenice became a Christian bishopric. The first of its bishops whose name is recorded in extant documents is Ammon, to whom Dionysius of Alexandria wrote in about 260. Dathes was at the First Council of Nicaea in 325, and Probatius at a synod held in Constantinople in 394.[۵][۶] No longer a residential bishopric, Berenice is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[۷]

The Ottoman flag is raised during Mawlid celebrations in Benghazi in 1896.

Ottoman province

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In the 13th century, the small settlement became an important player in the trade growing up between Genoese merchants and the tribes of the hinterland. In 16th century maps, the name of Marsa ibn Ghazi appears.[نیازمند شفاف‌سازی]

Benghazi had a strategic port location, one that was too useful to be ignored by the Ottomans. In 1578, the Turks conquered Benghazi and it was ruled from Tripoli by the Karamanlis from 1711 to 1835; it then passed under direct Ottoman rule until 1911. Greek and Italian sponge fishermen worked its coastal waters. In 1858, and again in 1874, Benghazi was devastated by bubonic plague.

Italian colonial rule

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The colonial Italians created the "Lungomare" (sea-walk) of Benghazi and constructed many other buildings.
Littorio Palace in Benghazi was the seat of the Cyrenaican regional assembly.

In 1911, Benghazi was invaded and conquered by the Italians. Nearly half the local population of Cyrenaica under the leadership of Omar Mukhtar resisted the Italian occupation.[۸]

In the early 1930s, the revolt was over and the Italians—under governor Italo Balbo—started attempts to assimilate the local population with pacifying policies: a number of new villages for Cyrenaicans were created with health services and schools.

Additionally Cyrenaica was populated by more than 20,000 Italian colonists in the late 1930s, mainly around the coast of Benghazi. Benghazi population was made up of more than 35 per cent of Italians in 1939.[نیازمند منبع] As a consequence, there was in Cyrenaica and mostly in Benghazi a huge economic development in the second half of the 1930s. Benghazi grew to be a modern city with a new airport, new railway station, new seaplane station, an enlarged port and many facilities. Benghazi was going to be connected in 1940 by a new railway to Tripoli, but in summer of that year war started between Italians and British and infrastructure development came to a standstill.

World War II

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In World War II Benghazi changed hands several times. During Operation Compass the city was captured from the Italians by Combe Force on 6 February 1941.

Benghazi was recaptured by Axis powers, led by general Erwin Rommel of the German Africa Corps, on 4 April.[۹]

It was taken again during Operation Crusader by the British on 24 December only to change hands again on 29 January 1942 in the Rommel Afrika Corps' push to Egypt.

During the fateful Battle of El Alamein–۱۰۶ کیلومتر (۶۶ مایل) from Alexandria, Egypt–British troops led by general Bernard Montgomery again defeated the Afrika Corps which then made a long steady retreat westward passing through Benghazi for the final time. On 20 November, Benghazi was captured by the British Eighth Army and thereafter held by the British.

In August 1943 from Benina airport of Benghazi started the US attack on the Ploiești oil refineries with 178 B-24 bombers (called Operation Tidal Wave), after an Italian "Arditi" paratroopers attack that destroyed some Allied aircraft in June 1943.[نیازمند منبع]

Contemporary Benghazi

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Maydan al-Shajara, in central Benghazi in 1964

Heavily bombed in World War II, Benghazi was later rebuilt with the country's newly found oil wealth as a gleaming showpiece of modern Libya. It became the capital city of Emirate of Cyrenaica (1949–1951) under Idris Senussi I. In 1951, Cyrenaica was merged with Tripolitania and Fezzan to form the independent Kingdom of Libya, of which both Benghazi and Tripoli were capital cities.

Support for the Senussi dynasty remained strong in Cyrenaica.

Benghazi lost its capital status when the Free Officers under the leadership of Muammar Gaddafi staged a coup d'état in 1969, whereafter all government institutions were concentrated in Tripoli, Even though King Idris was forced into exile and the monarchy abolished, support for the Senussi dynasty remained strong in Cyrenaica. This was emphasized by real or perceived injustices from the government towards the people of Benghazi, including the demolition in the year 2000 of the arena of football club Alahly Benghazi S.C., following anti-government protests.[۱۰][۱۱] On 15 April 1986, U.S. Air Force and Navy planes bombed Benghazi and Tripoli. President Ronald Reagan justified the attacks by claiming Libya was responsible for terrorism directed at the United States, including the bombing of La Belle discothèque in West Berlin ten days before.[نیازمند منبع]

2011 Revolution

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Court square in Benghazi, April 2011. At the central place for gatherings and demonstrations the walls are draped with pictures of casualties, mourners passing by.
A large crowd of anti-Gaddafi protesters from in and around Benghazi took to the streets on 6 July 2011, amassing in front of the Kateba and the courtyard.

In February 2011, peaceful protests erupted in Benghazi that were brutally suppressed by Gaddafi's armed forces and loyalists. The violence urged the people to fight back and try to overthrow Gaddafi from power in The Libyan Revolution. At least 500 people were killed in the protests against the government.[۱۲]

A young Benghazian carrying (deposed) King Idris' photo. Support of the Senussi dynasty has traditionally been strong in Cyrenaica.[۱۳]

The former Libyan flag used in the Kingdom of Libya was used by many protesters as an opposition flag.[۱۴][۱۵] Demonstrators were also seen carrying images of King Idris I. Benghazi and the Cyrenaica have been traditional strongholds of the royal Senussi dynasty.[۱۶]

By 21 February, the city was reported to be largely controlled by the opposition. The widely loathed mayor, Huda Ben Amer, nicknamed "the Executioner", had fled the city for Tripoli.[۱۷] Residents organised to direct traffic and collect refuse.[۱۸] By 24 February, a committee made up of lawyers, judges and respected local people had been formed in order to provide civic administration and public services within the city. Two local radio stations, operated by Voice of Free Libya, along with a newspaper, were also established.[۱۸][۱۹]

From 26 February to 26 August, Benghazi was the temporary headquarters of the National Transitional Council which is led by the former justice minister, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, until Tripoli was liberated.[۲۰]

On 19 March, pro-Gaddafi forces almost defeated the rebellion when they began attacking the city of Benghazi in a major offensive, but were forced back the next day when NATO forces began implementing United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.[۲۱]

On 1 June, explosives were detonated in a car near the Tibesti Hotel,[۲۲] with a rebel spokesman calling the bombing a "cowardly act". It was suspected that an officer was killed, and many people started to shout out anti-Gaddafi chants while the Tibesti was cordoned off.[نیازمند منبع]

On 19 May 2012, residents of Benghazi voted in historic local elections; this was the first time such elections have been held in the city since the 1960s, and turnout was high.

2012 attack on U.S. diplomatic mission

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On 11 September 2012, the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi was attacked by a heavily armed group of 125–150 gunmen, whose trucks bore the logo of Ansar al-Sharia, a group of Islamist militants, also known as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,[۲۳] working with the local government to manage security in Benghazi.[۲۴] U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Foreign Service Information Management Officer (IMO) Sean Smith, and CIA contractors and former Navy SEALs Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty were killed during a series of raids, commencing at nightfall and continuing into the next morning. Ten others were injured.

Second Libyan Civil War

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With the end of fighting, the city is currently undergoing a reconstruction drive, particularly around the Hawari and Venicia Districts.

Following the outbreak of the second Libyan Civil War in 2014, Benghazi became the subject of heavy fighting between the Libyan National Army-aligned House of Representatives government, and the Islamist Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries and ISIL-aligned Wilayat Barqa, which were entrenched in various pockets in the city. During the closing months of the battle, between late-2016 and mid-2017, much of the urban center in and around the remaining Shura Council pocket in the central coastal quarters of Suq Al-Hout and al-Sabri suffered heavy bombardment and war damage. Wilayat Barqa militants reportedly fled Benghazi in early January, while the LNA's General Khalifa Haftar declared the city cleared of the Shura Council on 5 July 2017.[۲۵] Despite Haftar's declaration of the liberation of the city, dozens of gunmen remained fortified and besieged in Sidi Akribesh, according to sources close to military.[۲۶] LNA captured the last militant-held district in December 2017.[۲۷]

On 23 October 2020, the 5+5 Joint Libyan Military Commission representing the LNA and the GNA reached a "permanent ceasefire agreement in all areas of Libya". The agreement, effective immediately, required that all foreign fighters leave Libya within three months while a joint police force would patrol disputed areas. The first commercial flight between Tripoli and Benghazi took place that same day.[۲۸][۲۹] مخالفین حکومت لیبی در این شهر دولت انتقالی تشکیل دادند.

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