Qayqab

Qayqab
—  Town  —
Qayqab Location in Libya
Coordinates: 32°43′32″N 22°01′18″E / 32.72556°N 22.02167°E / 32.72556; 22.02167Coordinates: 32°43′32″N 22°01′18″E / 32.72556°N 22.02167°E / 32.72556; 22.02167
Country	Libya
Region	Cyrenaica
District	Derna
Population (2006)[1]
– Total	7,297
Time zone	UTC+2

Qayqab^[2] (also Ghoigah^[3], Minţaqat al Qayqab,^[4] El-Ghégab,^[5] El Gaigab) is a town in the Derna District in northeastern Libya. The town is located on the northeast side of the Akhdar Mountains, south by road from Al Abraq and La Abraq Airport. Faydiya lies to the southwest, connected by road.

History

Qayqab was an ancient village, being identified with the Roman Agabis.^[6] It was a market village where goods from the coast were traded for animals and other products of the Cyrenaician herdering nomads.^[7] The village was the site of an Ottoman fort (citadel) built in 1852 by Abu Bakr Bu Hadus, chief of the Bara'sa tribe.^[8]

The town grew from the village when the government used oil money in the 1970s to supply housing for the herding nomads of the area.^[9]

Prior to the 2007 administrative reorganization, Al Qayqab was part of Al Qubah District.

Notes

1. ^ el Khajkhaj, Amraja M. (2008) نمو المدن الصغيرة في ليبيا (Noumou al Mudon as Sagheera fi Libia – The growth of small towns in Libya) Dār al-Sāqiyah lil-Nashr, Benghazi, pp. 118–123, ISBN 978-9959-854-10-0
2. ^ Al Qayqab (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
3. ^ Ghoigah (Variant) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
4. ^ Minţaqat al Qayqab (Variant) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
5. ^ El-Ghégab (Variant) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
6. ^ Johnson, Douglas L. (1973) Jabal al-Ak̲h̲ḍar, Cyrenaica: an historical geography of settlement and livelihood University of Chicago, Chicago, page 115, OCLC 727440
7. ^ Johnson, Douglas L. (1973) Jabal al-Ak̲h̲ḍar, Cyrenaica: an historical geography of settlement and livelihood University of Chicago, Chicago, page 90, OCLC 727440
8. ^ (1968) "al Gaigab" Libya Antiqua Volumes 5, page 217
9. ^ Behnke, Roy H. (1980) "The Process of Sedentarization in Khoolaan and Gaigab" The herders of Cyrenaica: ecology, economy, and kinship among the bedouin of eastern Libya University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois, page 80, ISBN 0-252-00729-8

See also

• List of cities in Libya