Where is Jadu, Al Jabal al Gharbi located?

Jadu is located in Al Jabal al Gharbi, Libya, at approximate coordinates 31.9528°, 12.0273°.

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Jadu

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Jadu

Elevation643 m

Coordinates31.95°, 12.03°

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Elevation

643 m

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Overview

Jadu or Gado is a mountain town in western Libya (Tripolitania), formerly in the Jabal al Gharbi District. Before the 2007 reorganization, and after 2015 it was part of Yafran District.

History & geography

History

Jadu was the main trade town of the Nafusa, and the first stop on the caravan roads leading from Tripoli to the Fezzan, the Wagadu empire, Gao and the Kanem Empire. The town of Djado in modern-day Niger was likely founded by Ibadi merchants from Jadu. Al-Bakri, an Arab Andalusian geographer writing in the second half of the 10th century, mentions a Jewish population inhabiting Jadu. Jadu was formerly the capital of the Nafusa Mountains District. In 1942, about 2,600 Jews and other people, who were considered undesirables by Italians, were rounded up throughout Libya and sent to the Giado camp. 564 died from typhus and other privations. The camp was liberated by the British Army in January 1943. Jadu's council rejected the draft 2017 constitution. In April 2020, local Amazigh forces were bombed at the end of the Second Libyan Civil War.