Tobruk or Tubruq (Arabic: طبرق‎; also transliterated as Tóbruch, Tobruch, Ţubruq, Tobruck and Tubruk) is a city, seaport, and peninsula on Libya's eastern Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt. It is the capital of Al Butnan District (formerly Tobruk District) and has a population of 300,000.

Tobruk was the site of a colony of ancient Greeks, and, later, of a Roman fortress guarding the frontier of Cyrenaica. Over the centuries, Tobruk also served as a waystation along the coastal caravan route. By 1911, Tobruk had become an Italian military post, but during World War II, in 1941, Allied forces, mainly the Australian 9th Division ("the Rats of Tobruk") took the city and prolonged fighting against German forces followed.

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