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Ghuma al-Mahmudi
Ghuma al-Mahmudi was a tribal leader of the Jabal Nafusa in western Libya who led a long revolt against the Ottomans after they restored direct rule over Tripolitania in 1835. Captured and sent into exile, he later escaped, returned to Libya and renewed the fight. He was killed in 1858, and he is remembered in Libya as a hero of resistance to foreign rule.
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