Tobruk or Tubruq (
Arabic: طبرق; also transliterated as Tóbruch, Tobruch, Ţubruq, Tobruck ) is a
town,
seaport,
municipality, and
peninsula in northeastern
Libya, near the border with
Egypt, in
North Africa. The town of Tobruk has a population of 110,000 (
2006), and it is the capital of
Tubruq Municipality. Tobruk was the site of a colony of
ancient Greeks, and, later, Tobruk held a
Roman fortress for guarding the frontier of
Cyrenaica. Over the centuries, Tobruk also served as a way station along the coastal caravan route. By
1911, Tobruk became an
Italian military post, but during
World War II, in
1941, Allied forces, mainly the Australian 9th Division, The Rats of Tobruk, took Tobruk and prolonged fighting with
Nazi Germany followed. Rebuilt after
World War II, Tobruk was later expanded during the
1960s to have a port terminal linked by an
oil pipeline to the
Sarir oil field.
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