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Qasr bin Ghashir

Qasr Bin Ghashir meaning "Ghashir Palace" is a town in the , of the Tripolitania region in northwestern . Named after Abdullah Ben Ghashir, due to his majority proprietary holding of the land in the region.
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  • Type: City with 6,570 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “Bab bin Ghashir”, “Qasr Bin Ghashir”, and “Qaşr Bin Ghashīr”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tripoli International Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a closed built to serve , the capital city of . The airport is located in the area of Qasr bin Ghashir, 24 kilometres from central Tripoli.

Qasr bin Ghashir

Latitude
32.686° or 32° 41′ 10″ north
Longitude
13.1765° or 13° 10′ 35″ east
Population
6,570
Elevation
71 metres (233 feet)
Open location code
8F4MM5PG+9J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1565512489
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2213618
Wiki­data ID
Q84168
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Qasr bin Ghashir” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باب بن غشير”
  • Arabic: “بن غشير”
  • Arabic: “حي باب بن غشير”
  • Arabic: “قصر بن غشير”
  • Belarusian: “Каср-Бен-Гашыр”
  • Dutch: “Qasr bin Ghashir”
  • French: “Kasr ben Ghachir”
  • Georgian: “ქასრ-ბენ-ღაშირი”
  • German: “Ben Gashir”
  • German: “Castelbenito”
  • German: “Qasr bin Ghaschir”
  • Hebrew: “קאסר בן ע’שיר”
  • Italian: “Ben Gascir”
  • Italian: “Bin Gashir”
  • Italian: “Castel Benito”
  • Italian: “Castelbenito”
  • Italian: “Castillo Benito”
  • Portuguese: “Alcácer ibne Gaxir”
  • Russian: “Бенгашир”
  • Russian: “Бин-Гашир”
  • Russian: “Каср-Бен-Гашир”
  • Zulu: “Qasr bin Ghashir”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Qasr bin Ghashir”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.