in northeastern Libya.]] Tobruk or Tubruq (Arabic: ????; also transliterated as Tóbruch, Tobruch, ?ubruq, Tobruck ) is a town, seaport, municipality, and peninsula in northeastern Libya, near the border with Egypt, in North Africa. The town of Tobruk has a population of 110,000 (2006), "Tobruk" (history), ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 2006, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, ''Concise.Britannica.com'' webpage: [http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9380861/Tobruk BC-Tobruk]. and it is the capital of Tubruq Municipality.Tobruk was the site of a colony of ancient Greek, and, later, Tobruk held a Roman fortress for guarding the frontier of Cyrenaica. Over the centuries, Tobruk also served as a way station along the coastal caravan route. By 1911, Tobruk became an Italian military post, but during World War II, in 1941, Allied forc

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