Yafran
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Yafran
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| Country | File:Flag of Libya.svg Libya |
| Region | Tripolitania |
| District | Jabal al Gharbi |
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| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| Template:Pluralize from text | +218 421Template:Pluralize from text |
| License Plate Code | 22 |
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Yafran /ˈjɑːfrən/ (Template:Langx), also spelled Jefren, Yefren, Yifran, Yifrin or Ifrane, is a city in northwestern Libya, in the Jabal al Gharbi District in the western Nafusa Mountains. Before 2007, Yafran was the administrative seat of the Yafran District.[3]
History
Libyan civil war
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Yafran people, as in other cities of Libya, demonstrated against Muammar Gaddafi. Subsequently, Yafran was exposed to bombardment and siege by Gaddafi forces. As of May 2011, Gaddafi's forces had shut down the water system and blocked food supplies[4] and held the western part of the town with some 500 rebels in the eastern section of Yafran still resisting.[5]
Yafran fell to Gaddafi's forces sometime in late May or early June. The centre of the town was used as a position for "government tanks, artillery guns and snipers".[6] On 2 June, rebel forces retook the city center and started to clear the area of Gaddafi's forces.[7] On 6 June, an on-site Reuters journalist reported that the pro-Gaddafi forces were nowhere to be seen in or around the town.[8]
Jewish community
Yafran had a deep-rooted Jewish history dating back to antiquity. According to chronicler Mordehai HaCohen (1856–1929), a local tradition holds that the Jewish community there originated after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, when generals under Titus allegedly sold 30,000 Jewish captives to Bedouins in Yafran.[9]
The local Jewish population flourished under Ottoman rule. During the Italian occupation of Libya in 1910–1922, they suffered persecution by the local Arab population; some of them fled to Tripoli.[9]
During World War II, Jews from Cyrenaica were brought to labor camps in Yafran; some Jews were later deported to the Giado concentration camp.[9] After the Tripolitania riots in 1945, most of the Jewish population moved to Tripoli and eventually emigrated to Israel in the 1950s.[9]
Climate
Yafran has a semi-arid climate (Köppen: BSh) with hot, dry summers and cool, somewhat rainy winters. Script error: No such module "weather box".
See also
Notes
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- ^ Wolfram Alpha
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.World Gazetteer. "Libya: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population". Retrieved 15 October 2011.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ " مدينةيفرن" ("Yafran District") Website of the General People's Committee of Libya, from Internet Archive dated 18 April 2006, in Arabic
- ^ People of Yafran, besieged by pro-Gaddafi forces, facing starvation | Libya TV
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Libyan begs NATO to save his small town". CNN. Archived from the original on 2020-10-03.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Boudreaux, Richard (1 June 2011). "Conflict Hardens in Libya's Mountains". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Rebels in western Libya seize mountain towns in push toward Tripoli « Shabab Libya
- ^ Al Jazeera, Libya Live Blog, June 6
- ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Roumani, Maurice (2010). Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World Online. Brill.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Yefren Climate Normals 1991–2020". World Meteorological Organization Climatological Standard Normals (1991–2020). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Archived from the original on 15 September 2023. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
External links
- "Yafran, Libya", Falling Rain Genomics, Inc.
- "Yafran Map — Satellite Images of Yafran", Maplandia
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