Sabha Airport (Sebha)
Sebha International Airport is an airport serving Sabha, capital of the Sabha District of Libya. The airport is 4 km southeast of the city.
The airport shares its runway with Sabha Airbase, which has operations on the southwest side of the airport.
The airport underwent expansion in the 1970s to make it into an international airport.
A LD600 million contract was signed (20 May 2008) with a joint venture comprising Lebanon's CCC and a new Libyan investment and development company for a new passenger terminal at Sabha Airport. It would have a capacity of 3 million passengers, and, like the new terminals at Tripoli International and Benina International, be designed by Aéroports de Paris Engineering. This development was not completed due to the Libyan Civil War.
In March 2017, it was announced that the airport had reopened to commercial traffic after closing in 2014 due to the continuing civil war.
The airport shares its runway with Sabha Airbase, which has operations on the southwest side of the airport.
The airport underwent expansion in the 1970s to make it into an international airport.
A LD600 million contract was signed (20 May 2008) with a joint venture comprising Lebanon's CCC and a new Libyan investment and development company for a new passenger terminal at Sabha Airport. It would have a capacity of 3 million passengers, and, like the new terminals at Tripoli International and Benina International, be designed by Aéroports de Paris Engineering. This development was not completed due to the Libyan Civil War.
In March 2017, it was announced that the airport had reopened to commercial traffic after closing in 2014 due to the continuing civil war.
Map - Sabha Airport (Sebha)
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Country - Libya
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Libya has been inhabited by Berbers since the late Bronze Age as descendants from Iberomaurusian and Capsian cultures. In classical antiquity, the Phoenicians established city-states and trading posts in western Libya, while several Greek cities were established in the East. Parts of Libya were variously ruled by Carthaginians, Persians, and Greeks before the entire region becoming a part of the Roman Empire. Libya was an early center of Christianity. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the area of Libya was mostly occupied by the Vandals until the 7th century when invasions brought Islam to the region. In the 16th century, the Spanish Empire and the Knights of St John occupied Tripoli until Ottoman rule began in 1551. Libya was involved in the Barbary Wars of the 18th and 19th centuries. Ottoman rule continued until the Italo-Turkish War, which resulted in the Italian occupation of Libya and the establishment of two colonies, Italian Tripolitania and Italian Cyrenaica (1911–1934), later unified in the Italian Libya colony from 1934 to 1943.
Currency / Language
ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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LYD | Libyan dinar | لد | 3 |
ISO | Language |
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AR | Arabic language |
EN | English language |
IT | Italian language |