Zintan
Sign in to saveZintan (, meaning "small castles") is a city in northwestern Libya, situated roughly southwest of Tripoli, in the Nafusa Mountains area. The city and its surrounding area have a population of 16,024.
Weather now
cached 1423h ago21°clear sky
54% 3.6 m/s OpenWeatherMap
Place details
- Locality
- ⴰⵜ ⵄⵉⵙⴰ اولاد عيسي
- Region
- ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵉⵏⴼⵓⵙⵏ جبل نفوسة
- Country
- ليبيا
- Population
- 33,000
- Timezone
- Africa/Tripoli
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Zintan
- Settlement.native_name
- Zintan /
- Settlement.image_skyline
- الزنتان.jpg
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Libya
- 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
- Jabal al Gharbi
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_total
- 16024
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Demonym
- Settlement.population_blank1
- Zintani
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +2
- Settlement.registration_plate_type
- License Plate Code
via Wikipedia infobox
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- History
- Civil War activity
- Notable people
- See also
- References
Zintan (, meaning "small castles") is a city in northwestern Libya, situated roughly southwest of Tripoli, in the Nafusa Mountains area. The city and its surrounding area have a population of 16,024.
== History == The Roman garrison town of Tentheos was on the Nafusa mountain range in the hinterland of the Limes Tripolitanus, near the border.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zintan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations