Tarhuna wa Msalata District

Pre-2007 extent of Tarhuna wa Msalata District

Tarhuna wa Msalata (Tarhuna and Msallata) was a district of Libya until 2007.[1] Between 1988 and 1995 there existed the Tarhuna District, which became Tarhuna wa Msalata between 2001 and 2007. It consisted of twenty-six Basic People's Congresses,[1] similar to townships, and its capital was Tarhuna. In the 2007 administrative reorganization the territory formerly in Tarhuna wa Msalata was transferred to Murqub District.[2]

Tarhuna was one of the leading resistance centres (with Misrata) to the Italian occupation of 1911.

  1. ^ a b "شعبية ترهونة و مسلاتة" ("Districts of Libya:Tarhuna Wa Msalata") Website of the General People's Committee of Libya, in Arabic, from Web Archive dated 15 October 2006
  2. ^ "شعبيات الجماهيرية العظمى" – "Sha'biyat of Great Jamahiriya" Archived 2009-02-07 at the Wayback Machine, Website of the General People's Committee of Libya, accessed 5 September 2009, in Arabic