Jadu, Libya

Jadu is located in the Nafusa Mountains,^[2] twenty-five kilometers southwest of Tarmeisa (طرميسة, Ţarmīşah).^[3]

Jadu was formerly the capital of the Nafusa Mountains District.^[2]

Giado, as it was then known by its Italian name, was the site of an Italian concentration camp during the Second World War.^[4] In 1942, about 2,600 Jews ^[5] and other people, who were considered undesirables by Italians, were rounded up throughout Libya and sent to the Giado camp.^[6]564 died from typhus and other privations.^[7] The camp was liberated by the British Army in January 1943.

Jadu's council rejected the draft 2017 constitution.^[8]

In April 2020, local Amazigh forces were bombed at the end of the Second Libyan Civil War.^[9]

• The Holocaust in Italian Libya
• List of cities in Libya

• "Jadu, Libya", Falling Rain Genomics, Inc.

31°57′N 12°01′E / 31.950°N 12.017°E / 31.950; 12.017