Many families in this area reject the idea of tribal society and consider themselves to be 100% from Tripoli/Libya (first) and Arab (second), but they likely descend from, and are part of, the Magarha tribe, which is among the largest in Libya.
In the years of Italian colonialism, it was the seat of one of the six districts of the Province of Tripoli, with jurisdiction over the area of Tripolitania, which is to the east of the capital.
The town was crossed by the city circuit on which the Grand Prix of Tripoli took place from 1925 to 1933, and it was in this area that, in 1930, a cyclist by the name of Gastone Brilli-Peri died in a tragic accident [2] .
This event led authorities to design a safer city racetrack, which was inaugurated on the occasion of the VIII Grand Prix of Tripoli on May 6, 1934, by then governor Italo Balbo within the oasis of Tagiura .
During the Cold War, it housed some soldiers and aircraft of the Soviet Air Force, and was one of the main targets of the 1986 American bombing of Libya on April 15, 1986.