Kufra

Kufra  (an aw spelled Cufra in Italian, Koufra in French or Khofra) is a basin (Arab: Uádi el Kufra) Bertarelli (1929), p. 514. an oasis group in Al Kufrah Destrict, sootheastren Cyrenaica in Libie. Kufra is historically important abuin aw acause at the end o nineteent century it became the center an holy place o the Senussi order. Mairower, it played a minor role in the Wastren Desert Campaign o Warld War II. 

It is in a pairticularly isolatit location no anerlie acause it is in the middle o the Sahara Desert but an aw acause it is surroondit on three sides bi depressions – which makes it dominate the passage in east-wast land traffic athort the desert; for the colonial Italians, it wis an aw important as a station on the north-sooth air traffic tae Italian East Africae. These factors, alang wi Kufra's dominance o the sootheastren Cyrenaica region o Libie, explains the Oasis' strategic importance an why it wis a point o conflict durin Warld War II.

Etymology
The wird Kufra comes frae the Arabic wird kafir, the Arabic term for non-Muslims (aften translatit as "infidels", literally "those who conceal [the truth]") wi reference tae the pagan Tebu fowk native tae the region.Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, Reise von Tripolis nach der Oase Kufra (1881).

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Freemit airtins
 "Al Kufrah, Libya" Falling Rain Genomics, Inc.
 migreurope
 Information about the Battle for Kufra
 (DE) Kufra Project 
 (DE) Green Desert, Kufra Project

Category:Populatit places in Libie
Category:Oases o Libie
Category:Cyrenaica