What the records say
- When
- 5 Sep 1816
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 10,000
- Coordinates
- 32.12° N, 20.07° E
- Description
- 1816 massacre
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Al-Jawazi massacre
The al-Jawazi massacre is a name given to a massacre committed against the Arab tribe of al-Jawazi of Banu Sulaym in the city of Benghazi in Cyrenaica in eastern Ottoman Tripolitania, on 5 September 1816, in which over 10,000 members of the tribe were killed. The site of the massacre was a Turkish castle in the city.
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