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Tobruk
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Tobruk [təˈbrʊk təʊ-]
n
(Placename) a small port in NE Libya, in E Cyrenaica on the Mediterranean coast road: scene of severe fighting in World War II: taken from the Italians by the British in January 1941, from the British by the Germans in June 1942, and finally taken by the British in November 1942
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