AI overview
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Sirt
- Settlement.native_name
- سِرْت
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Sirte.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- A square in Sirte
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Libya
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Tripolitania
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Sirte District
Article
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Early history
- Modern history
- Gaddafi era
- First Civil War
- Postwar
- IS occupation
- Reconstruction
- Second Civil War
- Climate
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|A square in Sirte (2007)
Sirte (; , ), also spelled Sirt, Surt, Sert or Syrte, is a city in Libya. It is located south of the Gulf of Sirte, almost right in the middle between Tripoli and Benghazi. It is known for its battles, ethnic groups and loyalty to former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi. Due to developments in the First Libyan Civil War, it was briefly the capital of Libya from 1 September to 20 October 2011 as Tripoli's successor after the city's fall. The settlement was established in the early 20th century by the Italians, at the site of a 19th-century fortress built by the Ottomans. It grew into a city after World War II.