El Tag, Libya

Libya

El Tag, Libya shares 11 connections with 7186 places across 4 topics, dominated by military history, nature, and a film appearance. A fortified settlement in the Kufra oasis, its name means "crown" in Arabic from its elevated position above the basin. Italy built a World War I-style fort here in the mid-1930s; in 1941 Free French forces and the British-New Zealand Long Range Desert Group captured it during the Western Desert Campaign. El Tag also appears in The English Patient, where a young officer detains a man suspected of spying.

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