The Nafusa Mountains (Arabic: جبال نفوسة) is a mountain range in the western Tripolitania region of northwestern Libya. It also includes their regions around the escarpment formed where the northern end of the Tripolitanian Plateau meets the Mediterranean coastal plain or the Jefara.
^Willeitner, Joachim (2001). Tripolitanien, Syrtebogen, Fezzan und die Kyrenaika. DuMont Reiserverlag. p. 14. ISBN 3-7701-4876-2.
The NafusaMountains (Arabic: جبال نفوسة) is a mountain range in the western Tripolitania region of northwestern Libya. It also includes their regions...
anti-Gaddafi forces in the NafusaMountains and, at a later period, in the surrounding plains of western Libya. The mountain range is of strategic importance...
2011 Libyan civil war, Berbers in the NafusaMountains were quick to revolt against the Gaddafi regime. The mountains became a stronghold of the rebel movement...
Ažbali / Maziɣ / Mazoɣ or Tanfust) is a Berber language spoken in the NafusaMountains (Adrar 'n Infusen), a large area in northwestern Libya. Its primary...
in 909 by the Fatimids. Ibadi communities continue to exist in the NafusaMountains in northwestern Libya, Djerba island in Tunisia and M'zab valley in...
The Banu Ghaniya, the successors of this dynasty in Tripoli and the NafusaMountains and the governors of the Spanish Balearic Islands until about the middle...
Nafusa, a Berber Kharijite (Ibadite) tribe, allied with the Rustamids of Tahert, which had carried on an independent existence in the Djebel Nafusa mountains...
in the opposition stronghold of Benghazi, it later relocated to the NafusaMountains, then the closest frontline to Tripoli, before advancing into the city...
approximately halfway between Tripoli and Ghadames, at the western end of the NafusaMountains coastal range, in the Tripolitania region. The name Nalut and its alternate...
language on February 7, 2016. Although regional councils in Libya's NafusaMountains affiliated with the National Transitional Council reportedly use the...
of bolt-action rifle. They were predominantly used by rebels in the NafusaMountains. These old weapons saw combat once again due to the rebels' limited...
the Tripolitanian city of Gharyan located at the eastern edge of the NafusaMountains. Following large scale protests across the country, what would soon...
west of Tripoli. Wazzin is in the desert near the western end of the NafusaMountains range, in the Nalut District. The town is the seat of Gasr Wazzin,...
campaign has been less successful in other areas, such as the remote NafusaMountains, inhabited by the Nafusi-speaking Berber minority, where the Emirati...
converted the major Berber tribes of Huwara around Tripoli, in the NafusaMountains and at Zenata in western Tripolitania. In 757 (140 AH), a group of...
forces during the 2011 Libyan civil war, until his death during the NafusaMountains Campaign from bullets fired by pro-Gaddafi forces. Madani was a member...
northwestern Libya, in the Jabal al Gharbi District in the western NafusaMountains. Before 2007, Yafran was the administrative seat of the Yafran District...
italian-occupied Tripoli, and its territory stretched, at its widest, from the NafusaMountains near the Tunisian border, to Misrata and the surrounding coast, encompassing...
as a strategic location. In the early days of the war, towns in the NafusaMountains quickly joined the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, but soon came...
of Jadu, on the northern edge of the Tripolitanian Plateau in the NafusaMountains. Historically, Kabaw was a Berber town in the Ghadames administrative...
southwestern part was in Nalut District. In 2013, its territory was placed in NafusaMountains District. However, by 2015, it had been restored as a district. From...