Maturba
مرتوبة
Town
Maturba is located in Libya
Maturba
Maturba
Location in Libya
Coordinates: 32°35′43″N 22°45′50″E / 32.59528°N 22.76389°E / 32.59528; 22.76389
Country Libya
DistrictDerna
Population
 (2006)[1]
 • Total7,730
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)

Maturba is a town in eastern Libya in the Derna District. It is located at 32.575739n, 22.761505e, 27 km (17 mi) south of Derna and 557 miles from Tripoli and the city's population is 8,130.[2]

The Martuba Air Base is located in Maturba. During the Second World War the airfield at Maturba,[3][4] saw heavy fighting in 1942.[5][6][7]

Martuba is connected with Lamluda by two roads. The main road which goes through Derna is part of the Libyan Coastal Highway while The inner road passes through the desert.

Notes

  1. ^ Amraja M. el Khajkhaj, "Noumou al Mudon as Sagheera fi Libia", Dar as Saqia, Benghazi-2008 p.120.
  2. ^ "Latitude and longitude GPS coordinates of Maturba (Libya, Africa)".
  3. ^ Roy Conyers Nesbit, The Armed Rovers: Beauforts and Beaufighters Over the Mediterranean p45-46.
  4. ^ Frederick Grice, War's Nomads: A Mobile Radar Unit in Pursuit of Rommel during the Western (Casemate, 2015).p11.
  5. ^ Christopher Shores, Giovanni Massimello, A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume 2: North African Desert, February 1942 - March 1943(Grub Street Publishing, 19 Jul. 2014).
  6. ^ Ken Delve Delve, The Desert Air Force in World War II: Air Power in the Western Desert, 1940-1942 (Pen and Sword, 31 Mar. 2017).
  7. ^ Frederick Grice, War's Nomads: A Mobile Radar Unit in Pursuit of Rommel during the Western (Casemate, 2015).p11.


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