Baladiyat of Libya

The Baladiyah (singular), or baladiyat (plural), is the intended second-level administration subdivision of Libya being reintroduced in 2012 by the General National Congress with Law 59 on the system of local administration, dividing the country into governorates (muhafazat) and districts (baladiyat), with baladiyah having local councils. As the proposed governorates have not been created, the 22 distrists continue to serve as the primary administrative divisions of Libya.

Baladiyah is an Arabic word used in many Arab countries to denote administrative divisions of a country.

History

Baladiyat were first introduced in Libya in 1983 to replace the governorate system. The ten existing governorates were replaced with forty-six baladiyat,[1] but in 1988 that number was reduced to twenty-five baladiyat. In 1995 they were replaced by shabiyat. For Libya, the baladiyat are usually known in English as "districts" and sometimes as "municipalities", but the municipal level under the baladiyat and subsequent shabiyat systems was the Basic People's Congress. After the fall of Gaddafi and the transfer of government from the interim National Transitional Council to the elected General National Congress, the previous shabiyat and Basic People's Congress system was deemed inappropriate, and a revised system was authorized with governorates (muhafazat) as the primary division and districts (baladiyat) as their subdivision, with baladiyat having local councils.[2][3] This was implemented in part by the Council of Ministers with resolution No. 180 in July 2013, creating the baladiyah.[4] There were originally ninety-nine baladiyat listed for Libya,[5] but by March 2015 that number had grown to 108.[6] The first-level administration subdivisions, the governorates (muhafazat), have yet to be created[7] due to a vested interest in maintaining decentralized governance, and the continuing civil war.[8]

The baladyat of libya map

1988

Map showing subdivision of former governorates into the 25 baladiya

The table hereunder lists the old twenty-five baladiyat in alphabetical order with a link to each one and numbered to be located on the map. Note that each district linked may be both a baladiyah and a shabiyah. The many changes may not always be reflected in the linked article.

Number Name Region
1AjdabiyaCyreneica
2‘AziziyaTripolitania
3ButnanCyreneica
4FatiCyreneica
5Jabal al AkhdarCyreneica
6JufraFezzan
7KhomsTripolitania
8KufraCyreneica
9Nuqat al KhamsTripolitania
10Wadi al ShatiiFezzan
11UbariFezzan
12ZawiyaTripolitania
13BenghaziCyreneica
14DernaCyreneica
15GhadamesTripolitania
16GharyanTripolitania
17MisrataTripolitania
18MurzuqFezzan
19SabhaFezzan
20SawfajjinTripolitania
21SirteTripolitania
22TripoliTripolitania
23TarhunaTripolitania
24YafranTripolitania
25ZlitanTripolitania

2013

Below is a list of the 99 baladiyat in Libya as created July 2013.[5]

Number Name District Region
1TobrukButnan (Capital)Cyrenecia
2MusaidButnanCyrenecia
3JaghbubButnanCyrenecia
4DernaDerna (Capital)Cyrenecia
5Al QubahQubah (Capital)Cyrenecia
6AbraqDernaCyrenecia
7BaydaJebel Akhdar (Capital)Cyrenecia
8CyreneJebel AkhdarCyrenecia
9Sahel El-JebelJebel AkhdarCyrenecia
10Umm al RizamDernaCyrenecia
11MarjMarj (Capital)Cyrenecia
12Jardas al ‘AbidMarjCyrenecia
13TocraMarjCyrenecia
14AbyarMarjCyrenecia
15QaminisBenghaziCyrenecia
16SuluqBenghaziCyrenecia
17BenghaziBenghazi (Capital)Cyrenecia (Historical Capital)
18AjdabiyaAl Wahat (Capital)Cyrenecia
19BregaAl WahatCyrenecia
20KufraKufra (Capital)Cyrenecia
21TazirbuKufraCyrenecia
22AwjilaAl WahatCyrenecia
23JikharraAl WahatCyrenecia
24JaluAl WahatCyrenecia
25MaradaAl WahatCyrenecia
26Gulf of SidraSirteTripolitania
27SirteSirte (Capital)Tripolitania
28ZamzamSirteTripolitania
29HunJufra (Capital)Fezzan
30Shatii ShargiWadi ShatiiFezzan
31Shatii GarbiWadi ShatiiFezzan
32SebhaSebha (Capital)Fezzan (Historical Capital)
33MurzukMurzuk (Capital)Fezzan
34EshargiaMurzukFezzan
35Wadi UtbaWadi ShatiiFezzan
36TraghanMurzukFezzan
37UbariWadi al Hayaa District (Capital)Fezzan
38GhatGhat (Capital)Fezzan
39Bent BayehWadi al Hayaa DistrictFezzan
40MisurataMisurata (Capital)Tripolitania
41ZlitenMurqubTripolitania
42Al KhumsMurqub (Capital)Tripolitania
43EssahlMurqubTripolitania
44Qasr KhiarMurqubTripolitania
45MsallataMurqubTripolitania
46TarhunaMurqubTripolitania
47Bani WalidMisurataTripolitania
48CastelverdeTripoliTripolitania
49TajuraTripoliTripolitania
50Tripoli (Capital of Libya)Tripoli (Capital)Tripolitania (Historical Capital)
51SuaniTripoliTripolitania
52Qasr bin GhashirTripoliTripolitania
53JanzurTripoliTripolitania
54AndalusTripoliTripolitania
55Wadi RabieTripoliTripolitania
56Abu SaleemTripoliTripolitania
57SbaieaTripoliTripolitania
58Sidi SaehTripoliTripolitania
59Souq ElkhamisMurqubTripolitania
60Souq al Jum'aaTripoliTripolitania
61‘AziziyaJafara (Capital)Tripolitania
62ZahraJafaraTripolitania
63ZawiyaZawiya (Capital)Tripolitania
64Western ZawiyaZawiyaTripolitania
65Al MayaZawiyaTripolitania
66ZuwarahNuqat al KhamsTripolitania
67SabrathaZawiyaTripolitania
68SormanZawiyaTripolitania
69JumaylNuqat al Khams (Capital)Tripolitania
70ZaltanNuqat al KhamsTripolitania
71AjaylatNuqat al KhamsTripolitania
72ReqdalinNuqat al KhamsTripolitania
73Baten EljabelNafusa MountainsTripolitania
74GharyanNafusa Mountains (Capital)Tripolitania
75YafranNafusa MountainsTripolitania
76KiklaNafusa MountainsTripolitania
77SormanNafusa MountainsTripolitania
78JaduNafusa MountainsTripolitania
79RhibatNafusa MountainsTripolitania
80RyainaNafusa MountainsTripolitania
81Asbi'aNafusa MountainsTripolitania
82RijbanNafusa MountainsTripolitania
83ZintanNafusa MountainsTripolitania
84Dahr EljabalNafusa MountainsTripolitania
85HarabaNafusa MountainsTripolitania
86NalutNalut (Capital)Tripolitania
87WazzinNalutTripolitania
88El HouamedNalutTripolitania
89KabawNalutTripolitania
90NesmaNalutTripolitania
91EshgigaMurqubTripolitania
92GhadamesNalutTripolitania
93QayqabDernaCyrenecia
94Bi'r al AshhabButnanCyrenecia
95QatrunMurzukFezzan
96TawerghaMisurataTripolitania
97AlghoraifaWadi al AjalFezzan
98DawonMurqubTripolitania
99ElgurdaWadi ShatiiFezzan

See also

References

  1. "Districts of Libya". Statoids.com. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
  2. "للقانون رقم 59 لسنة 2012 ميلادية بشأن نظام الإدارة المحلية" [Law No. 59 for the year 2012 AD on the local administration system] (PDF) (in Arabic). اللجنة المركزية لانتخاب المجالس البلدية [The Central Committee for the election of baladiyah councils]. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-27. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
  3. Bader, Mahmoud (April 2014). "Is Local Government in Libya the Solution?". Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). Archived from the original on 17 July 2014.
  4. "قرار مجلس الوزراء رقم 180 لسنة 2013 ميلادي بإنشاء البلديات" [Council of Ministers resolution No. 180 for the year 2013 AD the establishment of baladiyat] (PDF) (in Arabic). اللجنة المركزية لانتخاب المجالس البلدية [The Central Committee for the election of baladiyah councils]. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-26. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
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  6. "اسماء البلديات" [The names of the baladiyat] (in Arabic). اللجنة المركزية لانتخاب المجالس البلدية [The Central Committee for the election of baladiyah councils]. 26 March 2015. Archived from the original on 13 December 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
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  8. Vandewalle, Dirk (2015). "Libya's Uncertain Revolution". In Cole, Peter; McQuin, Brian (eds.). The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-19-025733-0.
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