Misrata

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Etymology

From Arabic مصراتة (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Preceding Arabic word cut-and-pasted from Wikipedia”)

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Misrata

  1. A port city on the Mediterranean, in northwestern Libya.
    • 2016 April 27, “The Battle of Misrata”, in Al Jazeera‎:
      The only path for the people of Misrata was to take on the Gaddafi forces, a fact that both civilians and rebel fighters were reconciled to.
  2. A district of Libya, with its capital in Misrata.

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