Msus or Zawiyat Msus (Arabic: زاوية مسوس), also Masous is a village in eastern Libya. It's located 130km (81mi) on the southeast of Benghazi, and far from Suluq on the same direction by 80km (50mi).[1]
Suluq is a town in the Benghazi District of the Cyrenaica region in northeastern Libya. It is located about 53 kilometers to the south-east of Benghazi.
There is a road linking her to Suluq. It's also linked with Charruba (about 69km (43mi) to the north) by another road.
Charruba or Kharruba is a village in Libya. It is located 66 kilometres (41 mi) south of Al Marj, and 186 kilometres (116 mi) west of Timimi. It’s linked with Timimi by the Charruba-Timimi desert road, and with Tacnis by another road.
Msus had been a site of several battles between Italian colonial forces and Libyan resistance fighters, like the one took place on March 3; 1914, between the latter (withdrawing from the Battle of Sceleildima) and the former.[2]
Notes
↑ Salem Mohammed ez Zawam, “Mu’jam al Amakin al Jughrafiya fi Libia”, Dar wa Maktabat ash Sha’b, Misratah, 2005, p.75.
↑ Kalifa Tillisi, “Mu’jam Ma’arik Al Jihad fi Libia1911-1931”, Dar Ath Thaqafa, Beirut, Lebanon, 1973, p.263.
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