Msus or Zawiyat Msus (Arabic: زاوية مسوس), also Masous is a village in eastern Libya located 130 km (81 mi) southeast of Benghazi, and 80 km (50 mi) from Suluq on the same direction.[1] There is another road linking her with Charruba (about 69 km (43 mi) to the north).
Msus was a site of several battles between Italian colonial forces and Libyan resistance fighters, such as the one that took place on March3, 1914, after the Battle of Sceleildima.[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.
