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5 unusual facts about Sabratha


2012 Bani Walid uprising

Local tribal leader Colonel Ouer stated that they were in contact with Mustafa Abdul Jalil and were meeting with representatives of the nearby towns of Zintan and Sabratha.

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

He was detained on 2 March by the Libyan Army in the town of Sabratha.

Sabratha

There is a Christian basilica of the time of Justinian and also remnants of some of the mosaic floors that enriched elite dwellings of Roman North Africa (for example, at the Villa Sileen, near Khoms).

In 1943, during the Second World War, archaeologist Max Mallowan, husband of novelist Agatha Christie, was based at Sabratha as an assistant to the Senior Civil Affairs Officer of the Western Province of Tripolitania.

Wefaq Sabratha

Wefaq Sabratha(وفاق صبراته) is a Libyan football club based in Sabratha, Libya.


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Giovanni Battista Montano

Baalbek, Petra, Sabratha and Leptis Magna are the finest examples of the late Imperial architecture in the Eastern Empire admired by Borromini.


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