Msus زاوية مسوس Zawiyat Msus |
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Location in Libya | |
Coordinates: 31°35′00″N 21°01′00″E / 31.58333°N 21.01667°ECoordinates: 31°35′00″N 21°01′00″E / 31.58333°N 21.01667°E | |
Country | Libya |
Region | Cyrenaica |
District | Benghazi |
Time zone | UTC + 2 |
Msus or Zawiyat Msus (Arabic: زاوية مسوس), also Masous is a village in eastern Libya. It's located 130 km (81 mi) on the southeast of Benghazi, and far from Suluq on the same direction by 80 km (50 mi).
There is a road linking her to Suluq. It's also linked with Charruba (about 69 km (43 mi) to the north) 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.