Suluq

Suluq (Arabic: سلوق, romanized: Sulūq) is a town in the Benghazi District of the Cyrenaica region in northeastern Libya.

Suluq is the site of a former Italian concentration camp for the nomadic tribes that lived in Eastern Libya (Cyrenaica) during the colonial Italian North Africa and Italian Libya period.

On 16 September 1931 Omar Mukhtar, the leader of the Libyan resistance movement, was hanged here.

Suluq was the southern inland terminus of a short narrow gauge railway [it] built by the Italian Libya Railways.

Suluq is on the crossroad of many roads connecting her with several inhabited places like: In 2009, 5,000 new housing units were built in Suluq.