Benghazi (Arabic بنغازي, transliterated Banġāzī) is a seaport in Libya, Africa. The present name is derived from that of a pious benefactor of the city named Ghazi or "Sidi Ghazi," as the locals called him, who died about 1450. The city was renamed "Bani Ghazi". Arabic (العربية al-arabiyyah, or less formally arabi) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... Transliteration in a narrow sense is a mapping from one system of writing into another. ... Categories: Stub | Commercial item transport and distribution | Transportation ... Africa is the worlds second-largest continent and second most populous. ... Ghazi (March 21, 1912 - April 4, 1939) was king of Iraq from 1933 to 1939. ... Events March - French troops under Guy de Richemont besiege the English commander in France, Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, in Caen April 15 - Battle of Formigny. ...

History

Modern Benghazi, on the Gulf of Sidra, lies a little southwest of the site of the ancient Greek city of Berenice or Berenicis. That city was traditionally founded in 446 BCE, by a brother of the king of Cyrene, but got the name Berenice only when it was refounded in the 3rd century BCE under the patronage of Berenice (Berenike), the daughter of Magas, king of Cyrene, and wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes, the ruler of Egypt. The new city was later given the name Hesperides, in reference to the Hesperides, the guardians of the mythic western paradise. The name may have also referred to green oases in low-lying areas in the nearby coastal plain. The city superseded Cyrene and Barca as the chief center of Cyrenaica after the 3rd century CE and during the Persian attacks, but when the Arabs came, in 642-643, it had dwindled to an insignificant village among magnificent ruins. Categories: Stub | Seas ... Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC Decades: 490s BC 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC - 440s BC - 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC 390s BC Years: 451 BC 450 BC 449 BC 448 BC 447 BC - 446 BC - 445 BC 444 BC... Cyrene, the ancient Greek city (in present-day Libya) was the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region and gave eastern Libya the classical name Cyrenaica that it has retained to modern times. ... If you are looking for something or someone else named Berenice, please go here. ... Magas of Cyrene (r. ... Ptolemy III Euergetes I, (Ptolemaeus III) (Evergetes, Euergetes) (reigned 246 BC-222 BC). ... For the ancient Greek city Hesperides see Benghazi. ... FC Barcelona, also known as Bar a, is a sports club in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain with sections in many different sports. ... The Persian Empire is the name used to refer to a number of historic dynasties that have ruled the country of Persia (Iran). ... The Arabs (Arabic: عرب ʻarab) are an originally Arabian ethnicity widespread in the Middle East and North Africa. ... Events August 5 - In the Battle of Maserfield, Penda king of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald, king of Bernicia. ... Events Rothari, King of the Lombards, issues the Lombard law code. ...

In 1578 the Turks invaded Benghazi and it was ruled from Tripoli by the Karamanlis from 1711-1835, then it passed under direct Ottoman rule until 1911. Under the Ottomans, Levantines, Maltese, Greeks and Jews formed the trading community, Turks, Arabs and Berbers formed ruling castes, and Black Africans acted as labourers and domestics. The city was a port in the slave trade that supplied Islamic markets, until European consuls agitated for its suppression not long before before World War I. Under later Ottoman rule the squalor of Benghazi was oppressive; in 1911, the Encyclopaedia Britannica noted, it was the most impoverished of the Ottoman provinces. Benghazi had neither a paved road nor telegraph service, and the harbor was too silted to permit the access of shipping. Greek and Italian sponge fishermen worked its coastal waters. The city was a center for Islamist activists. In 1858 and again in 1874 Benghazi was devastated by bubonic plague. Events January 31 - Battle of Gemblours - Spanish forces under Don John of Austria and Alexander Farnese defeat the Dutch. ... Tripoli (population 1. ... The name Karamanlis (also spelled Caramanlis) can refer to: A resident of Karamania, a region of Asia Minor in Turkey (See Karamanlides). ... // Events February 24 - The London premiere of Rinaldo by George Friderich Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage. ... 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power Imperial motto Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (Ottoman Turkish for the Eternal State) Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital Constantinople (İstanbul) Imperial anthem Ottoman imperial anthem Sovereigns Padishah of the Osmanli Dynasty Population ca 40 million Area 6. ... 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... The Levant or Sham (Arabic root word related to the term Semite) is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in Southwest Asia south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, and the north Arabian Desert and Mesopotamia to the east. ... The Berbers (also called Imazighen, free men, singular Amazigh) are an ethnic group indigenous to Northwest Africa, speaking the Berber languages of the Afroasiatic family. ... World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ... 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... 1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1874 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Bubonic plague is an infectious disease that is believed to have caused several epidemics or pandemics throughout history. ...

Under the Italian colonial occupation, particularly under Mussolini, Cyrenaica suffered ruthless repression of the Libyan resistance. In 1931 the Libyan patriot Omar al-Mucktar was hanged at Souluk, a village just west of Benghazi, effectively ending Libyan resistance. Heavily bombed in World War II, Benghazi was rebuilt as a gleaming showplace of modern Libya. The city was bombed by the United States, 17 April 1986. 6-7 Sept 1995 saw clashes between police and militant Islamists in Benghazi. Thousands of arrests were made, including many Sudanese expatriates. Benito Mussolini created a fascist state through the use of propaganda, total control of the media and disassembly of the working democratic government. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... A small village about 50 kilometers to the south-east of Benghazi. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb. ... April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In the late 1990s a children's hospital in Benghazi was the site of an outbreak of HIV infection that spread to over 400 patients. Libya blamed the outbreak on Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, who were arrested and eventually sentenced to death. As of 2005, the case remains unresolved. Childrens hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. ... Virus outbreaks occur when a virus bypasses infection control measures and a relatively high number of infections are observed where no cases or sporadic cases occurred in the past. ... -1... The trial against the Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor in Libya is the prosecution by Libya of the Benghazi six, five Bulgarian nurses (Kristiyana Valtcheva, Nasya Nenova, Valentina Siropulo, Valya Chervenyashka and Snezhana Dimitrova) as well as one Palestinian doctor (Ashraf al-Hajuj, also al-Hadjudj), who have been... The as of technique is a way to deal with statements that date quickly. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...