encamped at Automala during his march to join Agathocles of Syracuse in the campaign against Carthage (309/8 BC).

Modern

During the Italian occupation of Libya, the town was the site of an Italian concentration camp for Bedouins. The camp was just south of town and housed over 10,000 inmates. Thousands of the Bedouins starved to death in the camp run

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