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Al'Jabel Al'Akhdar ( meaning The Green Mountain) is a heavily forested, fertile upland area in eastern Libya
Libya

Libya , officially the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya , is a country located in North Africa. Bordering the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Libya lies between Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
. It is located in the modern municipality
Municipalities of Libya

There are twenty-two districts of Libya, known by the term shabiyah . In the 1990s these replaced the older baladiyat system.Historically the area of Libya was considered three provinces , Tripolitania in the northwest, Cyrenaica in the east, and Fezzan in the southwest....
 of Al Jabal al Akhdar
Al Jabal al Akhdar

Al Jabal al Akhdar is one of the Districts of Libya of Libya. It is in the north-east of the country. Its capital is Al Bayda' .In its territory, close to the city of Shahhat, can be found the remains of the old Greek colony of Cyrene, and the neighbouring city of Apollonia, Cyrenaica, a major port in the Mediterranean Sea in classical...
. The region is one of the very few forested areas of Libya, one of the least forested countries on Earth.

Jebel Akhdar consists of a mountainous plateau
Plateau

In geology and earth science, a plateau, also called a high plateau or tableland, is an area of highland , usually consisting of relatively flat terrain....
 (rising in some places to an altitude of 500 m/1,600 ft) cut by several valleys.






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Jabal Al Akdhar
Al'Jabel Al'Akhdar ( meaning The Green Mountain) is a heavily forested, fertile upland area in eastern Libya
Libya

Libya , officially the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya , is a country located in North Africa. Bordering the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Libya lies between Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
. It is located in the modern municipality
Municipalities of Libya

There are twenty-two districts of Libya, known by the term shabiyah . In the 1990s these replaced the older baladiyat system.Historically the area of Libya was considered three provinces , Tripolitania in the northwest, Cyrenaica in the east, and Fezzan in the southwest....
 of Al Jabal al Akhdar
Al Jabal al Akhdar

Al Jabal al Akhdar is one of the Districts of Libya of Libya. It is in the north-east of the country. Its capital is Al Bayda' .In its territory, close to the city of Shahhat, can be found the remains of the old Greek colony of Cyrene, and the neighbouring city of Apollonia, Cyrenaica, a major port in the Mediterranean Sea in classical...
. The region is one of the very few forested areas of Libya, one of the least forested countries on Earth.

Jebel Akhdar consists of a mountainous plateau
Plateau

In geology and earth science, a plateau, also called a high plateau or tableland, is an area of highland , usually consisting of relatively flat terrain....
 (rising in some places to an altitude of 500 m/1,600 ft) cut by several valleys. It lies north of Benghazi
Benghazi

Benghazi or Bengasi is the second largest city in Libya and the main city of the Cyrenaica region . It is also a Districts of Libya of Libya of the wider city area....
 and south of Derna
Derna

Derna is a Commune in Romania in northeastern Bihor County, Romania, 50 km from the county town, Oradea and 35 km from Marghita. It borders the communes of Popesti, Bihor, Chislaz, Brusturi and Spinus....
. It is the wettest part of Libya, receiving some 600 mm/24 inches of precipitation
Precipitation (meteorology)

File:MeanMonthlyP.gifIn meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of Atmosphere water vapor that is deposited on the earth's surface....
 annually. This rainfall means that the area has large forests, and enjoys rich fruit, potato, and cereal agriculture, something of a rarity in the arid country.

The ancient Greek colony of Cyrene
Cyrene, Libya

Cyrene was an ancient Greece colony in present-day Libya, the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region. It gave eastern Libya the classical name Cyrenaica that it has retained to modern times....
 was located in a lush valley in the Jebel Akhdar.

The Libyan leader Omar Mukhtar
Omar Mukhtar

Omar Mukhtar was from the wiktionary:tribe of Mnifa, born in a small village called Janzour located in the eastern part of Barqa. He was the leader of the resistance movement against the Kingdom of Italy colonization of Libya for more than twenty years....
 used this heavily forested mountainous region to resist the Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 military occupation
Military occupation

Belligerent military occupation occurs when the control and authority over a territory passes to a belligerent....
 of Libya for more than twenty years, where he organized and devised strategies for the Libyan resistance
Resistance movement

A resistance movement is a group or collection of individual groups, dedicated to fighting an invader in an military occupation country or the government of a sovereign nation through either the use of physical force, or nonviolence....
 against the Italian colonization.

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