page_title: Al-Khums
section_title: Libyan Independence and Gaddafi regime
hierarchical_section_title: Al-Khums / History / Libyan Independence and Gaddafi regime
caption_attribution_description: English: From left to right: 1. Sheik Mohammed Abu al As'ad Al Alem, Mufti of Tripoli; 2. British governor of Homs; 3. Bashir es Saadawi, president of Mu'tamar party; 4. Emir Idris es Senussi of Cyrenaica.العربية: من اليمين إلى اليسار ، الأمير إدريس السنوسي؛ أمير برقة، وبشير بك السعداوي؛ رئيس حزب المؤتمر، وحاكم الخمس البريطاني، والشيخ محمد أبو الأسعاد العالم؛ مفتي طرابلس.
context_page_description: Al-Khums or Khoms is a city, port and the de jure capital of the Murqub District on the Mediterranean coast of Libya with an estimated population of around 202,000. The population at the 1984 census was 38,174. Between 1983 and 1995 it was the administrative center of al-Khums District.
context_section_description: Bashir Saadawi, born in Khums, was one of the major figures who contributed to Libyan independence. He was the founder of the National Congress Party which supported a Republic instead of a Monarchy. When King Idris I was crowned as King of Libya, all political parties were disbanded and Saadawi was exiled to Beirut where he remained until his death on 17 January 1957.
  Khums remained part of Tripolitania province until 1962 when the Federal system canceled and replaced by Muhafazah governorates system  (muhafazah) system, and this system remained even after the 1969 coup d'état and through the Libyan Arab Republic, until superseded by the 1983 Baladiyat districts system. The baladiyat system was itself dropped in 1995 and replaced by thirteen districts named shabiyat. Despite the changes, Khums remained as a separate district under the name of al-Khums or Murqub.
caption: Bashir Saadawi (second right) along with King Idris (Far Right).
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