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{{Infobox settlement

| official_name = Jadu (Gado)
| other_name = Giado (Italian)
| native_name = Fessatu ([[Amazigh]] name)<br />Arabic: {{lang|ar|جادو}}
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| subdivision_name1 = [[Tripolitania]]
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| subdivision_name2 = [[Jabal al Gharbi District|Jabal al Gharbi]]
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'''Jadu''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|dʒ|ɑː|d|uː}} {{respell|JAH|doo}}; {{lang-ar|جادو}}) is a mountain town in western [[Libya]] ([[Tripolitania]]), formerly in the [[Jabal al Gharbi District]]. Before the 2007 reorganization, and after 2015 it was part of [[Yafran District]].

==Geography==
Jadu is located in the [[Nafusa Mountains]],<ref name="Jadu-LookLex">{{Cite web|title=Jadu: Berber hilltop village |publisher=LookLex |url=http://looklex.com/libya/jadu.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012210444/http://looklex.com/libya/jadu.htm |archive-date=12 October 2008 |url-status=unfit }}</ref> twenty-five kilometers southwest of [[Tarmeisa]] (طرميسة, Ţarmīşah).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tarmeisa: Village or fortress? |publisher=LookLex |url=http://looklex.com/libya/tarmeisa.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012211747/http://looklex.com/libya/tarmeisa.htm |archive-date=12 October 2008 |url-status=unfit }}</ref>

==History==
Jadu was formerly the capital of the Nafusa Mountains District.<ref name="Jadu-LookLex" />

===Giado concentration camp===
Giado, as it was then known by its Italian name, was the site of an Italian concentration camp during the Second World War.<ref>Gutman, Israel (1990). ''Encyclopedia of the Holocaust'', Macmillan, New York, p. 865, {{ISBN|0-02-897165-5}}.</ref> In 1942, about 2,600 Jews <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbmstoria.it/giornali3228|title=Scopri StoriaLive|publisher=|accessdate=3 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190345/http://www.pbmstoria.it/giornali3228|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> and other people, who were considered undesirables, were rounded up throughout Libya and sent to the Giado camp.<ref>Pugliese, Stanislao G. (2002). ''The Most Ancient of Minorities: the Jews of Italy'', Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, pp. 282-284, {{ISBN|0-313-31895-6}}.</ref>
564 died from typhus and other privations.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Barkat |first=Amiram |title=A new look at Libyan Jewry's Holocaust experience |date=30 April 2003 |newspaper=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.4725847 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181030005350/https://www.haaretz.com/1.4725847 |archive-date=30 October 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> The camp was liberated by the [[British Army]] in January 1943.

===Civil war===
{{main|Nafusa Mountains campaign}}

Jadu's council rejected the [[2017 draft Libyan constitution|draft 2017 constitution]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Assad |first=Abdulkader |date=23 December 2018 |title=Jadu city boycotts Libya's constitution referendum |newspaper=[[:The Libya Observer]] |url=https://www.libyaobserver.ly/news/jadu-city-boycotts-libya%E2%80%99s-constitution-referendum |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202230407/https://www.libyaobserver.ly/news/jadu-city-boycotts-libya%E2%80%99s-constitution-referendum |archive-date=2 February 2022 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In April 2020, local Amazigh forces were bombed at the end of the [[Second Libyan Civil War]].<ref>{{Cite news|author=Velqa |title=Riposte sanglante du général Haftar: 8 combattants d'Adrar Ineffusen tués |language=fr |date=15 April 2020 |publisher=VAVA innova |url=https://vava-innova.com/article/2020/04/15/riposte-sanglante-de-haftar-8-combattants-dadrar-ineffusen-tues/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201160407/https://vava-innova.com/article/2020/04/15/riposte-sanglante-de-haftar-8-combattants-dadrar-ineffusen-tues/ |archive-date=1 February 2022 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[The Holocaust in Italian Libya]]
* [[List of cities in Libya]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/LY/24/Jadu.html "Jadu, Libya"], Falling Rain Genomics, Inc.

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[[Category:The Holocaust in Italy]]
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