Tukrah

Tukrah, a small Libyan town east of Benghazi, carries one of the region's longest recorded histories: settled before the Greeks arrived in the late 7th century BC, it passed through Greek, Ptolemaic, Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic rule before being abandoned around the 11th century. Surviving remains include city walls and towers, the Roman Decumanus street, Byzantine baths, a Byzantine-Islamic fortress, ancient quarries with burial sites, and the Tukrah Museum housed inside a Turkish-Italian fort where archaeological excavations began in the 1960s.

• Population12,593
• Nearest water from center3.5 km
• Nearest mountain from center5.6 km