Place:Awbārī, Libya

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NameAwbārī
Alt namesUbarisource: Encyclopedia Americana (1986) XVII, 398
TypeFormer Municipality
Coordinates26.583°N 12.767°E
Located inLibya
Contained Places
Deserted settlement
Germa
General region
Fazzān
Inhabited place
Al Birkah
Al Qaṭrūn
Al ʿUwaynāt
Burayk
Dulaym
Feuet
Ghaddūwah
Madrūsah
Maʿfan
Tajarḥī
Tarbū
Tarāghin
Tasāwah
Tmassah
Umm al Arānib
Wāw al Kabīr
Zawīlah
Municipality
Awbari
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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The governorates of Libya (muhafazah) were a tenfold top-level administrative division of Libya from 1963 until 1983.

They came into being on 27 April 1963. In 1970, after the 1 September 1969 Free Officers Movement coup, there was an administrative reorganization which gave local authorities more power to implement policies of the national government, and redesignated some of the names and boundaries of the ten governorates. In February 1975, Libya issued a law that abolished the governorates and their service directorates, however they continued to operate[1] until they were fully replaced in 1983 by the baladiyat system districts.[2]

Historically, the three provinces of Libya (Tripolitania in the northwest, Cyrenaica in the east, and Fezzan in the southwest) were sometimes called governorates.

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