there. Eventually, the plan to move the capital from Tripoli to Bayda? was abandoned.

During the First Libyan Civil War, the city was the first to fall to anti-Gaddafi forces, on 17 February 2011, after the Battle of Bayda.

Geography

The city is famous for the valleys and forests nearby, which are not found in the other cities of the 'Green Mountains'--Akhdar Mountains.