# Martuba

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'''Martuba''' is a town in eastern Libya in the [Derna District](/source/Derna_District). It is located at 32.575739[n](/source/north), 22.761505[e](/source/east), {{convert|27|km|0|abbr=on}} south of [Derna](/source/Derna%2C_Libya) and 557 [miles](/source/miles) from [Tripoli](/source/Tripoli%2C_Libya) and the  city's population is 8,130.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thegpscoordinates.net/libya/martuba|title=Latitude and longitude GPS coordinates of Martuba (Libya, Africa)}}</ref>

The [Martuba Air Base](/source/Martuba_Air_Base) is located in Martuba. During the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War) the [airfield](/source/airfield) at Martuba,<ref>Roy Conyers Nesbit, The Armed Rovers: Beauforts and Beaufighters Over the Mediterranean  [https://books.google.com/books?id=444TDgAAQBAJ&dq=Maturba&pg=PA46  p45-46].</ref><ref>Frederick Grice, War's Nomads: A Mobile Radar Unit in Pursuit of Rommel during the Western (Casemate, 2015).[https://books.google.com/books?id=9m5hCgAAQBAJ&dq=Maturba&pg=PA11  p11.]</ref> saw heavy fighting in 1942.<ref>Christopher Shores, Giovanni Massimello, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wBriCwAAQBAJ&dq=Martuba&pg=PT78  A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945]: Volume 2: North African Desert, February 1942 - March 1943(Grub Street Publishing, 19 Jul. 2014).</ref><ref>Ken Delve Delve, [https://books.google.com/books?id=IoIlDwAAQBAJ&dq=Martuba&pg=PT450  The Desert Air Force in World War II: Air Power in the Western Desert, 1940-1942] (Pen and Sword, 31 Mar. 2017).</ref><ref>Frederick Grice, War's Nomads: A Mobile Radar Unit in Pursuit of Rommel during the Western (Casemate, 2015).[https://books.google.com/books?id=9m5hCgAAQBAJ&dq=Maturba&pg=PA11  p11.]</ref>

Martuba is connected with [Lamluda](/source/Lamluda) by two roads. The main road which goes through Derna is part of the [Libyan Coastal Highway](/source/Libyan_Coastal_Highway) while The inner road passes through the desert.

==Notes==
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{{Darnah}}

Category:Populated places in Derna District

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