User:Beni Walid

BENI Walid (WARFALLA) is one of the most known tribes in Libya and it is located about 165 KM south east of tripoli, around 100 KM from Leptis Magna (Al khomas) not by car road, and less than 35 km from the end of its Wade to the city Musrata its strategic location makes this city (Beni Walid) one of the most important place in the past and in now, the wade were the city located is part of Warfalla, Warfalla is the orginal name of the territories the expends to nort east to Sirt and south to Wadan and south west to Gadams and north west to Geado, Zentan and Garyhan, and nort to Tarhona, It used to be an old Kasar in its Sawaq (Market place) lpcated on top of the Wada bank, it was destroyed by the Libyan govermentin1993 that (Kasar, or in Arabic Khala) is casal goes back to pr-Ottoman period. Beni Walid is called on the Wada which has two banks the north and south, on each side people of this Wada had made their life and living mostly on planting olive trees, some of these olive trees go back to history before the roman times, the water wells spread on both sides of the Wada indict that Warfalla people were advanced in technologies of digging and it show the imports of the Wada (valley) as well in history, on both sides of the Wada and on the top of the side there is Al Gasaba and those as well go back to thousands of years and most likely before Arabs came to this Valley, A Gasaba is stone built large building with small main gate with out any windows, these stones are not as large as which the Rome had used in their buildings, The second largest Wada in Warfalla is the largest Wada in Libya called Wada Sof Algeen, this name is not Arabic, This wada is very rich in archeology and history.