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Benghazi
behn-GAH-zee
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A major port city in eastern Libya.
"Benghazi is Libya's second-largest city after Tripoli."
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Etymology
From an Arabic name recorded historically as "port of ibn Ghazi," referring to a local Muslim holy man.